When Nancy E. Delph was born on 18 April 1856, in Sneedville, Hancock, Tennessee, United States, her father, Harvey Edward Delph, was 29 and her mother, Mary Rebecca Catherine Erwin, was 24. She married Letcher Tucker Sizemore about 1873, in Clay, Webster, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bell, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Redbird, Knox, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died in 1933, in White Oak, Morgan, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 77.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
English (Norfolk and Cambridgeshire): variant of Delve, itself a topographic name from Middle English delf, delphe, delve (Old English (ge)delf) ‘pit, quarry, canal, ditch’, denoting someone who lived by a pit, quarry, or excavation, or, in some instances, an occupational name for a ditcher, digger, or quarrier (Middle English delver(er)).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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