Brief Life History of Drucilla
When Drucilla Norrod was born on 20 November 1856, in Crawford, Overton, Tennessee, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Norrod II, was 43 and her mother, Mary Ann Allred, was 41. She married Jesse Ledford Qualls on 3 March 1872, in Overton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Civil District 9, Overton, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Overton, Tennessee, United States in 1948. She died after 1900, and was buried in Davis, Loudon, Tennessee, United States.
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- Dresillia Nard in household of Benjemon Nard, "United States Census, 1870"
- Drusilah (Unknown) Norrod, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Drusulla No...D, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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World Events (8)
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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