Brief Life History of Mahala
When Mahala Norrod was born in 1855, in Overton, Tennessee, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Norrod II, was 42 and her mother, Mary Ann Allred, was 40. She married William A. Key on 29 September 1874, in Overton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Civil District 4, Fentress, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Clarkrange, Fentress, Tennessee, United States in 1941. She died in 1941, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Campground Cemetery, Polk, Tennessee, United States.
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- Mahaly Nard in household of Benjemon Nard, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mahala Norrod, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Mahala No...Od Key, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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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.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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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