When Nancy Elizabeth Vincent was born on 10 July 1851, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, her father, Charles Vincent III, was 45 and her mother, Elizabeth Highley, was 40. She married William M. Lewis on 11 March 1869, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bremen, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Elliott, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 4 January 1920, in Bremen, Logan, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Bremen, Logan, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English, French, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and Spanish: from the personal name Vincent, Latin Vincentius, a derivative of vincens, genitive vincentis, present participle of vincere ‘to conquer’. The name was borne by a 3rd-century Spanish martyr widely venerated in the Middle Ages and by a 5th-century monk and writer of Lérins, as well as various other early Christian saints.
Irish: the English surname (see 1 above) has been established in the south of Ireland since the 17th century, and has also been adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Dhuibhinse ‘son of the dark man of the island’.
History: The surname Vincent of French origin (see 1 above) is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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