Nancy Ann Rose

December 1820–1906 (Age 85)
North Carolina, United States

The Life Summary of Nancy Ann

When Nancy Ann Rose was born in December 1820, in North Carolina, United States, her father, James Rose, was 20 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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Family Time Line

James H. Rhodes
1815–1884
Nancy Ann Rose
1820–1906
Marriage: May 1844
Mary Ann Rhodes
1845–1923
Alex Rhodes
1852–
Julius Rhodes
1853–1884
Emily Paralee Rhodes
1846–1912
James Henry Rhodes
1848–1923
Robert Riley Rhodes
1849–1909
Edny Rhodes
1850–
David Allen Rhodes
1851–1894
Albert Shaw Rhodes
1859–1946
Thomas B Rhodes
1860–1944
Amanda Rhodes
1863–1949
Julia Frances Rhodes
1864–1947
Elizabeth Alice "Betty" Rhodes
1865–1955
Wiley Sampson Rhodes
1868–1961

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    May 1844Hardeman, Tennessee, United States
    • Children

    (14)

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    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

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    World Events (8)

    1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
    Age 1
    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
    Age 10
    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
    Age 26
    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    Name Meaning

    (1997: 54636;2007: 113735; 2010: 153397)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’).

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

    Possible Related Names

    Rozic
    Rosson
    Roseman
    Roos
    Reisen
    Rosado
    Royce
    Roesel
    Roese
    Rozak
    Rosenbach
    Roser
    Royston
    Royse
    Rosette
    Rosman
    Ross
    Rozier
    Rozsa
    Rusk

    Sources (11)

    • 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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