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Jack Sisson (c. 1743 —1821) [1] was an enslaved African American who sided with the Patriots and served in the 1st Rhode Island Regiment during the American Revolutionary War. Sisson was one of the key figures in the July 1777 capture of British General Richard Prescott .
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Ernest Cunningham, 87, American politician, member (1969–1998) and speaker (1987–1989) of the Arkansas House of Representatives. [256] Paul Darveniza, 78, Australian rugby union player (national team) and neurologist, blood cancer. [257] Enchanting, 26, American rapper, complications from a drug overdose. [258]
Arizona: The Chuckbox. Tempe. The sign outside touts "over 278 sold," but The Chuckbox is likely to sell that many burgers in a day now. Watch as they grill your burger (and bun) over a mesquite ...
The 6th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (also sometimes known as the 1st, Phifer's, White's and McNeill's Battalion) was organized in August 1861 at Pocahontas, Arkansas, originally composed of four Arkansas companies and two Louisiana companies, which were consolidated about April 20, 1862, into two Arkansas companies and one Louisiana company. [2]
A 23-year-old nurse, mother to a 10-month-old girl, is among the four people killed in Friday’s mass shooting at an Arkansas grocery store.. Callie Weems died when rounds and fragments from a ...
"Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...
Robert A. Crump (July 4, 1854 – July 4, 1922) was a state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Sebastian County, Arkansas in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1915. [1] [2] He lived in Greenwood, Arkansas. [3] Tate died on July 4, 1922, in a fire at his one of his homes while saving his son and family who lived in the home. [4] [5]