Brief Life History of Olive
When Olive Fordham was born on 11 May 1812, in Wilkinson, Georgia, United States, her father, Benjamin Fordham IV, was 28 and her mother, Elsie Miller, was 27. She married Rev Thomas Washington Dupree on 27 December 1833, in Wilkinson, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in District 332, Wilkinson, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died on 22 December 1898, in Wilkinson, Georgia, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Nash Cemetery, Gwinnett, Georgia, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (9)
- Olive Dupree in household of Thomas Dupree, "United States Census, 1870"
- Olive Fordham DuPree, "Find A Grave Index"
- Olive Fordham in entry for Maranda Jane Nash, "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1942"
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World Events (8)
1818
Historical Boundaries: 1818: Gwinnett, Georgia, United States
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Norfolk named Fordham, from Old English ford ‘ford’ + hām ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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