When Nancy Ream was born on 22 March 1846, in Berrysville, Highland, Ohio, United States, her father, Johannes or John Rehm or Rhiem or Rheem or Ream, was 46 and her mother, Susanna Clark, was 41. She married George Bell on 8 December 1861, in Hillsboro, Highland, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Athens, Athens, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Agency Township, Osage, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 May 1910, in Quenemo, Osage, Kansas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Quenemo, Osage, Kansas, United States.
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Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Weller, Kansas Territory, United States* 1859: Osage, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Osage, Kansas, United States *Weller renamed Osage on 1859
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Perhaps an Americanized form of German Riehm , Rehm , or Röhm (see Roehm ).
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English reaume, reame ‘realm, dominion’, although the context for the adoption of this word as a surname is unclear.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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