When John Cole Rumsey was born on 11 June 1847, in Floyd, Georgia, United States, his father, Richard Monroe Rumsey, was 22 and his mother, Nancy Malinda Echols, was 15. He married Anna Rose on 15 June 1873, in Pope, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Franklin, Georgia, United States in 1850. He died on 4 October 1923, in Carterville, Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Carterville Cemetery, Mineral Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English: habitational name from Romsey (Hampshire), from an Old English personal name Rūm (genitive Rūmes) + Old English ēg ‘island, raised ground in marshland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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