Elizabeth Forsythe

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Forsythe was born on 29 May 1819, in Kentucky, United States, her father, William Bradford Forsythe, was 18 and her mother, Esther Hetty Ashmore, was 18. She married Thomas Perry Dickson on 8 January 1850, in Clark, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Round Prairie, Benton, Arkansas, United States in 1880. She died on 26 November 1907, in Noble, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Ceres Cemetery, Ceres, Noble, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Perry Dickson
1828–1893
Elizabeth Forsythe
1819–1907
Marriage: 8 January 1850
William Thomas Dickson
1850–1851
Susan America Dickson
1851–1906
Joseph Jackson Dickson
1854–1921
Henry Clendenen Dickson
1856–1933
Alwilda A Dickson
1856–1930
Charles Millard Dickson
1859–1927
Sarah Ann Dickson
1861–1940
Benjamin A. Dickson
1866–1945

Sources (12)

  • Eliza Dixon in household of Thomas P Dixon, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Eliza Forsyth, "Indiana, Marriages, 1811-2019"
  • Eliza Dickson, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1830 · Louisville and Portland Canal Opens

The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.

1832 · Black Hawk War

The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.

1848 · Chicago Board of Trade is organized

Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.

Name Meaning

Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Fearsithe, composed of the elements fear ‘man’ + sith ‘peace’. Some early forms with the prepositions, as for example William de Fersith (Edinburgh 1365), seem to point to an alternative origin as a habitational name, but no placename of suitable form is known. The spelling Forsythe is associated chiefly with northern Ireland.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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