When Nancy T. "Nannie" Adams was born on 1 September 1853, in Vermilion, Illinois, United States, her father, Joseph Martin Adams, was 26 and her mother, Desdemoney Swisher, was 22. She married Ambrose Villars on 23 April 1873, in Vermilion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Ross Township, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1935. She died on 2 February 1935, in Vermilion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Walnut Corner Cemetery, Bismarck, Vermilion, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1864: Vermillion, Illinois, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
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