When Mary Jane Norrod was born on 11 November 1849, in Overton, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Norrod II, was 36 and her mother, Mary Ann Allred, was 33. She married James M Whitehead in 1867, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 7 St. Mary, Marion, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Magisterial District 5, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 23 May 1915, in Robinsons Creek, Green, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Robinsons Creek, Green, Kentucky, United States.
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According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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 The Amendment was later repealed.
Altered form of English Norwood . It was further respelled to Nard , Norred , Norrid , and Nored .
History: Benjamin Isaac Norrod (1735–1816) came from Buckinghamshire, England, to MD in 1735, and moved on to Stewart County, TN.
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