On This Day - May 8th

On This Day...

1554 - Marriage: John Brooke and Elizabeth Whetman, Saint Leonards, Eastcheap, City of London, England

1708 - Birth: Isaac Morgan, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1764 - Birth: Margaretha Zwilling, Wallenborn, Eifel, Germany

1773 - Birth: Heinrich Bieber,

1792 - Birth: Nathaniel Straughan, Shelby, Kentucky, United States

1807 - Birth: Mary Higginbotham, Elbert County, Georgia

1815 - Birth: Eulalie Beaudreau, St. Jean Baptiste de Rouville, Quebec, Canada

1829 - Death: Caleb HIGGINBOTHAM, East Feliciana, Louisiana, United States

1829 - Death: Caleb Higginbotham, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

1831 - Birth: Martha Ann 'Melinda' Courtney, Louisiana

1835 - Birth: Valentine Hartmann, Dromersheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

1848 - Birth: James Redrick Singletary, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

1859 - Death: John Batman, Crawford County, Indiana

1863 - Death: Margaretha Scholzen, Wallenborn, Eifel, Germany

1903 - Death: Howell Cobb Williams, Louisiana

1935 - Death: Keziah M. Thurston, Mentor, Polk County, Minnesota

1952 - Death: William Allen Chatham, Los Angeles, California

1966 - Death: Bevey Walter Reams,

Hm.  More cleanup.  Double entries for the death of Caleb Higginbotham.  That one entry is ALL CAPS tends to indicate to me that I actually have duplicate entries of the whole person, and not just this date.  Which makes me wonder how much more of that family I have duplicated?

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