Brief Life History of Annie Eliza
When Annie Eliza Rich was born on 14 April 1854, in Butts, Georgia, United States, her father, Jackson Rich, was 41 and her mother, Louisa Ann "Eliza" Collins, was 38. She married Samuel Davis Thurston on 30 July 1876. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and District 615, Butts, Georgia, United States for about 30 years. She died on 9 November 1926, in Church, Sussex, Virginia, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Jenkinsburg City Cemetery, Jenkinsburg, Butts, Georgia, United States.
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- Ann E Rich in household of Jackson Rich, "United States Census, 1860"
- Annie E. Rich, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Annie Eliza Thurston, "Georgia, Deaths, 1914-1927"
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1861
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.
1862
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a wealthy man (or perhaps in some cases an ironic nickname for a pauper), from Middle English, Old French riche ‘rich, wealthy’, a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to ancient Germanic rīc ‘power(ful)’.
English: from the Middle English personal name Rich, a pet form of any of the post-Conquest names beginning in Rich-, such as Richer and especially Richard . Compare Rick .
English: either a topographic name from Middle English riche(Old English ric) ‘stream’, signifying one who lived beside a stream, as at Glynde Reach (Sussex), or perhaps a habitational name from the (now lost) village of Riche (Lincolnshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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