When Nancy Adaline Rhyne was born on 5 November 1850, in Waleska, Cherokee, Georgia, United States, her father, Jacob Stroup Rhyne, was 33 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth Pitts, was 33. She married Virgil Rush Jordan on 23 February 1871, in Cherokee, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 1, Young, Texas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 3, Young, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 15 May 1911, in Newcastle, Young, Texas, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Young, Freestone, Texas, United States.
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The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Possibly also an Americanized form of Swiss German Rhyn: topographic name for someone living on the Rhine river, Middle High German Rīn.
Americanized form of German Rhein or Rein , or perhaps of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
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