When Dinah Ring was born on 18 December 1783, in Stokes, North Carolina, United States, her father, Thomas Joseph Ring III, was 26 and her mother, Susan Winston Fountain, was 24. She married Joseph Holbrook on 1 December 1803, in Stokes, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 16 April 1852, in Centerville, Hickman, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Pope, Perry, Tennessee, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
English, Danish, German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of rings (from Middle English ring, Middle High German rinc, Middle Dutch ring), either to be worn as jewelry or as component parts of chain-mail, harnesses, and other objects. It may also have arisen as a nickname for a wearer of a ring. This name (of German origin) is also found in Slovenia and in Czechia. Compare English Ringer and German Rink .
Norwegian: variant of Ringen .
German: topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German rink, rinc ‘circle’ for someone who lived at a square or market place; or a nickname for a quick or slight, small person, from Middle High German ringe ‘quick, nimble; small, not noteworthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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