Ruth Ann Champ

Brief Life History of Ruth Ann

When Ruth Ann Champ was born on 1 May 1812, in Madison, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Champ Jr, was 35 and her mother, Susannah Hannah Daugherty, was 34. She married Harvey Wylie on 2 February 1835, in Madison, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Garrard, Kentucky, United States in 1860. She died on 28 January 1898, in Paint Lick, Garrard, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Old Paint Lick Cemetery, Paint Lick, Garrard, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harvey Wylie
1809–1885
Ruth Ann Champ
1812–1898
Marriage: 2 February 1835
Eliza Jane Wiley
1836–1918
Salem Wallace Wylie
1837–1919
Margaret Ellen Wylie
1839–1909
Martha Ann Wiley
1840–1928
Mary Catharine Wiley
1842–1930
Louisa Frances Wylie
1844–1915
William F Wylie
1846–1903
John Leslie Wylie
1849–1937
Sarah Ellen Wylie
1851–1933
Henry Brutus Clay Wylie
1853–1933

Sources (11)

  • R A Wiley in household of Harvey Wylie, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Ruthy Ann Champ, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Ruth L. Champ, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"

World Events (8)

1818 · Jackson Purchase

The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.

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. 

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.

Name Meaning

English (southern, of Norman origin) and French: from Old French champ ‘field, open land’ (from Latin campus ‘plain, expanse of flat land’), a topographic name for someone who lived by a field, or else in the countryside as opposed to a town; or a habitational name from any of numerous French places of this name (Aube, Isère, Maine-et-Loire). Compare Duchamp .

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

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