Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Dinges was born on 17 July 1836, in Rebersburg, Miles Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Dinges, was 28 and her mother, Caroline Stover, was 22. She married Charles Purdy on 16 May 1860, in Norwalk, Huron, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Rice, Cloud, Kansas, United States in 1895 and Kansas, United States in 1905. She died on 24 February 1913, in Lyons, Rice, Kansas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Lyons, Rice, Kansas, United States.
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- Rebecca Purdy, "Kansas State Census, 1905"
- Rebecca Deanious, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Rebecca Dinges Purdy, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1854
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.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Name Meaning
German: from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Dionysius (see Dennis ). Compare Dings .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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