Brief Life History of Nancy Margaret
When Nancy Margaret Jarvis was born in September 1813, in Wilkesboro, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, her father, John J Jarvis, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Chambers, was 16. She married John L Dowell about 1833. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and Johnson, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1910, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 97.
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- Nancy M Dowel in household of John Dowel, "United States Census, 1880"
- North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
- Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Gervais(e), itself from ancient Germanic Gervas, with gair ‘spear’ as the first element and an uncertain second, perhaps a borrowing of Celtic wass- ‘servant, vassal’. The Latinized name Gervasius was borne by a Christian saint, martyred under the Roman Emperor Domitian, who became one of the patrons of Milan.
English: in Yorkshire, sometimes a habitational name from Jervaulx in East Witton (North Yorkshire). The place takes its name from the river Ure + Old French val, vals ‘valley’.
Americanized form of French Gervais and of its variant Gervaise, cognates of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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