Brief Life History of Richmond Tennessee "Tesse"
When Richmond Tennessee "Tesse" Marmon was born on 24 September 1870, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, her father, Richmond James Marmon Sr., was 64 and her mother, Sarah Jane "Sallie" Holliman, was 33. She married Robert Perry West in 1883, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 20 September 1887, at the age of 16.
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- Tesse Marmon in household of S J Marmon, "United States Census, 1880"
- T S Marmon, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Miss Norman in entry for James Murphy West, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1955"
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1872 · The Amnesty Act
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1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
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Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Gloucestershire):
variant of Marmion .
variant of Marriman, an occupational name meaning ‘servant of Mary’, from the female personal name Mary (see Marie ) + Middle English man in the sense ‘servant’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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