Cynthia Ann Lee

Brief Life History of Cynthia Ann

When Cynthia Ann Lee was born about 1835, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Robert D. Lee, was 28 and her mother, Arminta Carpenter, was 22. She married Cullen William French on 20 October 1862, in Henry, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Henry, Henry, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Henry, Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died in 1880, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 46.

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Cullen William French
1822–1870
Cynthia Ann Lee
1835–1880
Marriage: 20 October 1862
Kiziah ( Kizzie) Louise French
1859–1936
Andrew Jackson French
1869–1947
Andrew James French
1869–1927

Sources (10)

  • Sintha French, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Cinthia Ann Lee - Government record: birth-name: Sinthia or Cynthia Ann/Lee/
  • Ann Lee, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"

World Events (6)

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.

English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.

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

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