Brief Life History of Nancy Jane
When Nancy Jane Snyder was born on 5 May 1821, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Adam Snyder, was 16 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Wilson, was 13. She married Hiram Wetzel Reece on 25 December 1842, in Johnson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Civil District 8, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years and Civil District 4, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 15 October 1910, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Reece Cemetery, Trade, Johnson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Nancy Reece in household of Hiram W Reece, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nancy Reese, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Nancy Snider, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1824 · """Mary Randolph Publishes """"The Virginia Housewife"""""""
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schneider ‘tailor’ and of its Slavic(ized) variants, such as Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Šnajder, Czech Šnajdr (see also Snider 1).
Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Snijder, an occupational name for a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch sniden ‘to cut’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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