When Verlina Dollarhide was born in 1856, in Wise, Wise, Virginia, United States, her father, Hiram Dollarhide Sr, was 43 and her mother, Malinda Sturgill, was 36. She died on 29 November 1913, at the age of 57.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Irish: possibly an altered form of de la Hyde (see Hyde ), which was a prominent surname in Leinster from medieval times onward. Compare Dollahite .
History: Francis Dollahide, born c. 1650–60 in County Dublin, Ireland, was the ancestor of Americans with the surname Dollahide, Dollahite, and Dollarhide. In 1680 he was transported to MD for some youthful misdemeanor. He appears to have been an educated man and rose to be an important landowner and politician, serving in the Lower House of the MD legislature as an elected representative for Baltimore County from c. 1705 to 1721.
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