Brief Life History of Ruth Evaline
When Ruth Evaline Tate was born on 29 September 1840, in Warren, Tennessee, United States, her father, Samuel Jackson Tate, was 25 and her mother, Susannah Lockhart, was 20. She married James Albert Phelps on 30 September 1860, in Sequatchie College, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and Jefferson Township, Osage, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 14 February 1883, in Osage, Missouri, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Fuersville, Osage, Missouri, United States.
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- Eveline Phelps in household of James A Phelps, "United States Census, 1870"
- Evaline Tate, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Ruth Evaline Tate Phelps, "Find A Grave Index"
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1841
Historical Boundaries: 1841: Osage, Missouri, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
English (northern):
from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Tate (Old English Tāta, from tāt ‘happy’).
usually a variant of Tait .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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