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Preston Smith Brooks Sr. :us34stars: Born: August 5, 1819 Birthplace: Edgefield County, South Carolina Father: Colonel Whitfield Butler Brooks 1790 – 1851 (Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina) Mother: Mary Parsons Carroll 1800 – 1870 (Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina) 1st Wife: Caroline Harper Means 1820 – 1843 2nd Wife: Martha Caroline Means 1826 – 1901 Children: Whitfield D. Brooks 1843 – 1843 Caroline Harper Brooks 1849 – 1924 Rosa Brooks 1849 – 1933 Preston Smith Brooks Jr. 1854 – 1928 Education: 1839: Graduated from South Carolina College Occupation: Attorney in Edgefield, South Carolina Captain Company D Palmetto Regiment in Mexican – American War Plantation...
John Brown :us34stars: Born: May 9, 1800 Birthplace: Torrington, Connecticut Father: Owen Brown 1771 – 1856 (Buried: Old Hudson Township Burying Ground, Hudson, Ohio) Mother: Ruth Mills 1772 – 1808 (Buried: Old Hudson Township Burying Ground, Hudson, Ohio) 1st Wife: Dianthe Lusk 1801 – 1832 (Buried: Brown Family Cemetery, New Richmond, Pennsylvania) 2nd Wife: Mary Ann Day 1816 – 1884 (Buried: Madronia Cemetery, Saratoga, California) Children: John Brown Jr. 1821 – 1895 (Buried: Crown Hill Cemetery, Put–in–Bay, Ohio) Jason Brown 1823 – 1912 (Buried: Glendale Cemetery, Akron, Ohio) Owen Brown 1824 – 1889 (Buried: Brown Mountain Grave Site, Altadena, California) Frederick Brown 1827 – 1831 (Buried: Brown Family Cemetery, New...
Alfred Mordecai Sr. Birthplace: Warrenton, North Carolina Father: Jacob Mordecai 1762 – 1838 (Buried: Hebrew Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia) Mother: Rebecca Mears Myers 1776 – 1863 (Buried: Hebrew Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia) Wife: Sara Ann Hays 1805 – 1894 (Buried: Mikveh Israel Cemetery No. 2, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Children: Brig. General Alfred Mordecai Jr. 1840 – 1920 (Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.) Augustus Mordecai II 1847 – 1918 (Buried: Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio) Education: 1823: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (1st in class) Occupation before War: 1823: Brevet 2nd Lt. United States Army Engineers 1823 – 1832: 2nd Lt. United States Army Engineers 1823 – 1824: Assistant...
John Anthony Quitman Born: September 1, 1798 Birthplace: Rhinebeck, New York Father: Rev. Frederick Henry Quitman 1760 – 1832 (Buried: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Peter, Rhinebeck, New York) Mother: Mary M. Mayer 1761 – 1849 (Buried: Saint John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Manorton, New York) Wife: Eliza Turner 1810 – 1859 (Buried: Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Mississippi) Children: Louisa Quitman Lovell 1826 – 1884 (Buried: Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Mississippi) John Quitman 1822 – 1838 (Buried: Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Mississippi) Edward Quitman 1832 – 1833 (Buried: Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Mississippi) Sarah Eliza Quitman 1834 – 1846 (Buried: Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez...
Sir Henry Morton Stanley a.k.a. John Rowlands Born: January 28, 1841 Birthplace: Denbigh Wales Wife: Dorothy Tennant 1855 – 1926 (Buried: Saint Michael and all Angels Churchyard England) Children: Denzil Morton Stanley 1895 – 1959 (Buried: Saint Michael and all Angels Churchyard England) Explorer, Journalist. Born John Rowlands in Denbigh Wales, he was journalist noted for his expeditions to the African continent and remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". In 1859, he went to the United States to start a new life, participated in the Civil War first as a Confederate and later in the Union Army. Following the Civil War, he began a career as a journalist and wrote about...
Daniel Webster :us34stars: Born: January 18, 1782 Birthplace: Salisbury, New Hampshire Father: Ebenezer Webster 1739 – 1806 (Buried: Webster Place Cemetery, Webster Place, New Hampshire) Mother: Abigail Eastman 1739 – 1816 (Buried: Webster Place Cemetery, Webster Place, New Hampshire) 1st Wife: Grace Fletcher 1781 – 1828 (Buried: Old Winslow Burying Ground, Marshfield, Massachusetts) 2nd Wife: Caroline La Roy 1797 – 1882 (Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York) Children: Grace Fletcher Webster 1810 – 1817 (Buried: Old Winslow Burying Ground, Marshfield, Massachusetts) Colonel Fletcher Webster 1813 – 1862 (Buried: Old Winslow Burying Ground, Marshfield, Massachusetts) Julia Webster Appleton 1818 – 1848 (Buried: Old...

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