Emily Clarissa Boyd Balch

Brief Life History of Emily Clarissa Boyd

When Emily Clarissa Boyd Balch was born on 31 May 1818, in Alabama, United States, her father, Theron Eusebius Balch, was 30 and her mother, Alpha Boyd, was 23. She married Nathaniel Henderson Dryden on 10 September 1840, in Coles, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Precinct 5, Pawnee, Nebraska, United States in 1880 and Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States in 1885. She died on 26 September 1901, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Kearney Cemetery, Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Nathaniel Henderson Dryden
1819–1907
Emily Clarissa Boyd Balch
1818–1901
Marriage: 10 September 1840
Elizabeth Ann Dryden
1841–1918
David Berry Dryden
1845–1864
Theron Eusebius Dryden
1846–1866
Mary Dryden
1849–1860
Alpha Cornelia Dryden
1851–1921
John Nathaniel Dryden
1856–1931
Caroline Emily Dryden
1860–1956
Martha Julia Dryden
1864–1958

Sources (18)

  • Emily Driden in household of Nathan Driden, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Emily C Balch, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
  • Emily C. Dryden, "BillionGraves Index"

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. 

1819 · Alabama Becomes a State

Alabama became the twenty-second state admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English (Somerset and Wiltshire): nickname from an unrecorded Middle English balche or belche, presumably from Old English bælce ‘belch, belching; stomach; pride, arrogance’, probably applied in the sense ‘swelling pride, arrogance’, but in some cases it may have been acquired by a man given to belching.

English (Somerset and Wiltshire): possibly a nickname from Middle English balche, a noun or adjective derived from Old English bælcan ‘to shout’, for a man who habitually shouted.

Americanized form of German Bolch .

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

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