Brief Life History of Ephraim Taylor
When Ephraim Taylor Rhodes was born on 17 April 1865, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States, his father, Samuel Burton Rhodes, was 39 and his mother, Cathrina Cynthia Mull, was 37. He married Margaret A Queen on 2 October 1887, in Pigeon Township, Haywood, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Cecil, Haywood, North Carolina, United States in 1910 and East Fork Township, Haywood, North Carolina, United States in 1930. He died on 19 October 1938, in Haywood, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Bethel, Haywood, North Carolina, United States.
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- E Taylor Rhodes, "United States Census, 1920"
- Taylor Rhodes, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Ephruim Taylor Rhodes, "Find A Grave Index"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English:
either a topographic name for someone who lived by ‘(the) woodland clearings’, plural form of Middle English rode (Old English rod, rodu), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named, principally Rhodes in Bury (Lancashire) or possibly from one of the many minor places in Yorkshire similarly named, or Rhodes Minnis (Kent). The Yorkshire name sometimes alternates with the singular form (see Rhode and Rode ). The Rh- spelling was introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries by clerks with a classical education, who associated the name with the Greek island of Rhodes, famous in ancient history and mythology. There is also no connection with modern English road (Old English rād ‘riding’), which was not used to denote a thoroughfare until the 16th century. The surname is particularly common in Yorkshire and Lancashire but occurs with various spellings in smaller numbers widely across England.
variant of Rhode , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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