Brief Life History of Nancy Ann
When Nancy Ann Rose was born in December 1820, in North Carolina, United States, her father, James Rose, was 21 and her mother, Edna Caroline Harper, was 16. She married James H. Rhodes in May 1844, in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years and Davis Township, Grant, Arkansas, United States in 1900. She died in 1906, in Grant, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 86.
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- Nancy Rhodes in household of Madison Jones, "United States Census, 1900"
- Nancy Ann Ross, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- N A Rhoads in household of J H Rhoads, "United States Census, 1880"
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, and German: from the name of the flower, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German rose (from Latin rosa), in various applications. In part, it is a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house bearing the sign of the rose. It is also found, especially in Europe, as a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion (compare 4 below). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and similar-sounding names from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Rózsa (see Rozsa ), Slovak Róža and Czech Roza . Compare 6 below and French Larose 2.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Rohese, Roese, later Rose, Royse (ancient Germanic Hrodohaidis, Rothaid, composed of the elements hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + haid(is) ‘kind, sort’).
English and Scottish: variant of Ross .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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