Brief Life History of Nancy A
When Nancy A Hurst was born on 23 February 1839, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Hurst, was 45 and her mother, Sarah ‘Sally’ Neil, was 40. She married Clinton Younger Rice on 26 July 1854, in Tazewell, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Collin, Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 8, Denton, Texas, United States in 1880. She died on 13 December 1883, in Pilot Point, Denton, Texas, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Pilot Point Community Cemetery, Pilot Point, Denton, Texas, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Nancy Rice in household of Clinton Rice, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nancy Hurst, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Nancy A Hurst Rice, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1854
Historical Boundaries 1854: Denton, Texas, United States
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a wood or wooded hill, from Middle English hirst(e), herst(e), hurst(e) (Old English hyrst) or a habitational name from any of the places so called, such as Hurst Green (in Mitton, Lancashire), Hirst (Northumberland), Hurst (Berkshire, Kent, Warwickshire), Hurstpierpoint (Sussex), or Hirst in Longwood (Yorkshire).
Irish: re-Anglicized form of de Horsaigh, the Gaelicized form of the English habitational name Horsey , established in Ireland since the 13th century.
German and Swiss German (also Hürst): topographic name from Middle High German hurst ‘woodland, thicket’; or a habitational name from a place so named in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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