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David Dickerson Hamilton
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David Dickerson Hamilton
7/24/1842 - 5/11/1922
(Shown at age 58)
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David Dickerson Hamilton was born on July 24, 1842 in Davidson Co., Tennessee and died on May 11, 1922 in Davidson Co., Tennessee. He lived to be 79 years old.
He married Margaret Amanda Page (12/10/1852 - 1/30/1931 Davidson Co. TN).
Their children were:
- Emily A. Hamilton (1871 1924),
- Paul Perry Hamilton (1875 1961),
- Nellie Page Hamilton (1877 1888),
- Herman Hamilton (1880 1957),
- Ashley Thomas Hamilton (1883 1932),
- Elsie Venner Hamilton (1887 1956), and
- Phillip Wise Hamilton (1890 1967).
Occupation: Schoolteacher | 
 | Military | 6/1/1861 | TN | 18 yrs old | | David Dickerson Hamilton -Company 'H'
7th Tennessee Infantry,
Archer's Brigade - rank is given as Private in, Corporal out.Enrolled 1 June 1861 at Camp Trousdale, Sumner County, Tennessee. Mustered out as a 2nd Corporal.
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| Military | 5/31/1862 | Seven Pines VA | 19 yrs old | | He was wounded at Seven Pines, Virginia 31 May 1862. Admitted 17 August 1862 to Chimborazo Hospital No 5, Richmond, Virginia with debility (weak and feeble). In hospital at Richmond, Virginia until October 1862. Returned to duty 14 November 1862. Present November and December 1862 until 15 June. Present July and August 1863 at Richmond, Virginia. Promoted to Second Corporal in August 1863. Present until 25 January 1865 (on sick furlough with pneumonia). |
| Military | 1/1/1891 | TN (Davidson County) | 48 yrs old | | Applied for a veteran's pension after 1891, #7038. Was living in Davidson County, Tennessee at the time of application. |
| Census | 6/1/1900 | Nashville Ward 13 TN (Davidson County) | 57 yrs old | | 517, 129 - David D. Hamilton (age57),
Margret A. Hamilton (47),
Paul P. Hamilton (25),
Herman Hamilton (18),
Ashley Hamilton (16),
Elsie Hamilton (12),
Phillip Hamilton (10),
John M. Blake (41)&
Emily Blake (28). All were born in TN, as were their parents. David and Margret have been married 30 years, they had 7 childern, 6 are living. David is a school teacher,Paul is a book kepper.
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| Newspaper | 5/11/1922 | Nashville TN | 79 yrs old | | His obituary was in Confederate Veterans Magazine, Volume XXX (1922), p307. It read: "After a brief illness, David Dickerson Hamilton died at his home in Nashville on the morning of May 11, 1922, the fifty seventh anniversary of his return from the war of the sixties. Dick' Hamilton, as he was affectionately known by his friends, was born in Davidson County, 24 July 1842. He was one of twelve children ... of whom only the youngest brother, Tolbert F. Hamilton, of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee survives him. He enlisted in Sumner County, 22 May 1861, with three of his brothers - Joseph Porter, Eleazer Dent and John Hall Hamilton - as members of Company H, 7th Tennessee, and all fought through the entire four years except Dent Hamilton, who was transferred to another company, was taken prisoner, and died in Camp Chase. Dick Hamilton was severely wounded in the head and shoulder at the battle of Seven Pines, Virginia and again at Petersburg, Virginia. He was mustered out at Augusta, Georgia, 1 May 1865, and made his way home on crutches, walking part of the way... Being told that all who came to Nashville were to be forced to take the oath of allegiance, he slipped from the train at Lavergne, borrowed a horse from a friend, and went across the country to his home near Stewart's Ferry, twelve miles east of Nashville, where he found his family mourning for him as dead. For several years after the war he used crutches. He was for thirty years or more a teacher in the schools of Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1870 he was married to Miss Margaret Amanda Page, who survives him, with two daughters and four sons.
His friendliness and good humor won for him a place in the hearts of all who knew him. He had a vivid recollection of his war experiences and delighted in narrating amusing incidents of soldier life. For fifty-five years he was a member of the Christian Church. His friendliness and good humor won for him a place in the hearts of all who knew him. He had a vivid recollection of his war experiences and delighted in narrating amusing incidents of soldier life. For fifty-five years he was a member of the Christian Church.
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David, his family, and friends. For example, David is 13 years old when Third Seminole Indian War begins. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida.
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1844 |
The first telegraph message is sent by Morse, who later invents the Mores Code |
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1853 |
The process of creating steel is invented by Besermer in Britain and Kelly in the U.S. |
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1856 |
The first Neanderthal fossils are found near Germany |
| 17 |
1859 |
Charles Darwin publishes "Origin of Species" and begins the evolution theory. |
| 23 |
1865 |
Mendel publishes his papers on genetics and introduces the concept to the public. |
| 27 |
1869 |
Cro-magnon Man fossils are found in France |
| 35 |
1877 |
Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed. |
| 37 |
1879 |
Edison invents the electric light bulb. |
| 47 |
1889 |
The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards |
| 53 |
1895 |
Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance. |
| 55 |
1897 |
First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph |
| 58 |
1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
| 58 |
1900 |
The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control. |
| 59 |
1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
| 60 |
1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
| 61 |
1903 |
Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk |
| 62 |
1904 |
The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming |
| 64 |
1906 |
The triode vacuum tube is invented |
| 64 |
1906 |
Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes |
| 64 |
1906 |
Electrons are discovered by Thomson |
| 70 |
1912 |
The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people. |
| 71 |
1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
| 72 |
1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
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1861 |
NEWS HEADLINES: American Civil war begins at Ft. Sumter, located in Charleston Harbor, VA. |
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1862 |
NEWS HEADLINES: May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West. |
| 40 |
1882 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity. |
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1885 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen. |
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1908 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile |
| 70 |
1912 |
White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out. |
| 71 |
1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
| 75 |
1917 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism. |
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1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
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1855 |
Third Seminole Indian War begins. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida. |
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1860 |
Presidential election puts Abraham Lincoln in office. The campaign has heated the issues regarding slavery in the south. |
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1862 |
May 20, 1862 the US government passes the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for settlement of lower Southeast and West. |
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1863 |
Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing slaves. |
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1865 |
American Civil war ends with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. Reconstruction begins in the "old South" |
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1868 |
An eight-hour work day is established for federal employees. |
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1875 |
Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law. |
| 34 |
1876 |
The National League of Baseball is founded |
| 67 |
1909 |
The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP) |
| 68 |
1910 |
Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area. |
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1909 |
The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe |
| 72 |
1914 |
World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days. |
| 75 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
| 77 |
1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
| 78 |
1920 |
Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made. |
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 | Margaret Page
Born on December 10, 1852 and died on January 30, 1931.
They were married 1/1/1870.
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Ashley Thomas Hamilton
Born in Davidson Co,, Tennessee on October 19, 1883 and died in Davidson Co., Tennessee on February 22, 1932. He was 48 years old.
He married Mamie Goostree Criddle (2/21/1886 - 5/25/1957 Davidson,TN).
They had three children: Leonora Estella (1905 -1993), Dorothy Ann (1910-1955 married Marcellus George Hudson Harsh), and Mar...
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