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James Wotton Shevill 1835 - 1891

James Wotton Shevill of Camberwell Australia was born in 1835 to Henry Shevill and Mary Wotton Shevill. He had a brother Peter Wotton Shevill. James Shevill died at age 56 years old in 1891 in Camberwell.

James Wotton Shevill

Camberwell Australia

1835

1891

Camberwell, Australia

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1891

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James Wotton Shevill lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 56.

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In 1835, in the year that James Wotton Shevill was born, on January 30th, the first known attempt to kill a sitting President of the United States occurred just outside the United States Capitol Building. President Andrew Jackson was leaving the building after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis. An Englishman, Richard Lawrence - who was unemployed and possibly mentally ill - stepped out and attempted to shoot. His gun misfired so he pulled out another gun - which also misfired. He was immediately caught.

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In 1857, he was 22 years old when on March 2nd, the largest slave auction in US history was begun. Called "The Weeping Time", the auction lasted 2 days. Slave owner Pierce M. Butler - who had inherited the slaves 20 years before but was now deeply in debt - sold 436 men, women, children, and infants, all of whom were kept in stalls at a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia. The people were held for weeks before the auction in the horse stalls.

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