Cynthia Hope

Brief Life History of Cynthia

When Cynthia Hope was born on 25 February 1816, in Roane, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Hope, was 38 and her mother, Bersheba Walker, was 36. She married John Rufus Harvey on 29 November 1838, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died on 1 January 1890, in Roane, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Cave Creek Cemetery, Roane, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Rufus Harvey
1815–1878
Cynthia Hope
1816–1890
Marriage: 29 November 1838
Susan B Harvey
1838–1908
H. M. Harvey
1851–
Albert T Harvey
1862–
Martha Jane Harvey
1840–1926
George W Harvey
1842–1863
John Franklin Harvey
1845–1919
Rebecca C. Harvey
1847–1907
Samuel E Harvey
1849–1892
William Hope Harvey
1851–1931
Franklin L Harvey
1853–1919
Sarah M. Harvey
1855–1865
Walker Alexander Harvey
1857–1899

Sources (12)

  • Synthia Harvy in household of John R Harvy, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Cynthia Hope Harvey, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Cintha Hafen in entry for W. M. Harvey, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"

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World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a ‘remote enclosed place’, from Middle English and Older Scots hop(e) (Old English hop); or else a habitational name from any of several places called Hope in Cheshire, Devon, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Shropshire, and North Yorkshire. A hop most often denoted a distant, secluded valley, especially in the West Midlands, northern England, and southern Scotland, but in Essex, Kent, and Sussex it usually referred to an enclosed piece of land or a promontory in a marsh or in wasteland. In other cases, the name may refer to someone who lived at a small landlocked bay or inlet, or who came from a place so named, such as Stanford le Hope in Essex, Middle Hope in Somerset, and Hope by Bolt Head in Devon (Middle English hop(e), Old English hōp, Old Norse hóp). The surname is also established in Ireland.

Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads, notably in Hordaland, from Old Norse hóp ‘narrow bay’.

Americanized form (translation into English) of French Lespérance ‘hope’ (see Lesperance ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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