When Rhoda Jarvis was born on 6 March 1796, in White, Tennessee, United States, her father, Rezia Jarvis, was 46 and her mother, Elizabeth Hannah Rose, was 41. She married Alsa Pace on 22 March 1816. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 3 May 1859, in Lauderdale, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Fellowship Baptist Church Cemetery, Obadiah, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States.
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The �Mississippi territory existed from April 7, 1798, to December 10, 1817, when the western half became the state of Mississippi and the eastern half became Alabama Territory. The territory was given up by Spain through the Treaty of Madrid.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Mississippi is the 20th state.
English (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Gervais(e), itself from ancient Germanic Gervas, with gair ‘spear’ as the first element and an uncertain second, perhaps a borrowing of Celtic wass- ‘servant, vassal’. The Latinized name Gervasius was borne by a Christian saint, martyred under the Roman Emperor Domitian, who became one of the patrons of Milan.
English: in Yorkshire, sometimes a habitational name from Jervaulx in East Witton (North Yorkshire). The place takes its name from the river Ure + Old French val, vals ‘valley’.
Americanized form of French Gervais and of its variant Gervaise, cognates of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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