When Ellen E. Ratliff was born on 12 May 1842, in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States, her father, James Ratliff, was 44 and her mother, Elizabeth Venable Anderson, was 37. She married William Robert Mobley on 2 May 1872, in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Northern Division, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and North Carolina, United States in 1870. She died on 4 May 1877, at the age of 34, and was buried in United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
On February 7, 1862, General Burnside's expedition started with the Battle of Roanoke Island. The battle was mostly fought by the Union and Confederate Navy's. This was a Union victory.
English (Suffolk): habitational name from one or more of the places so named, such as Radcliffe (Lancashire), Radcliffe on Trent and Ratcliffe on Soar (both Nottinghamshire), Radclive (Buckinghamshire), Ratcliffe Culey and Ratcliffe on the Wreake (both Leicestershire), Ratclyffe in Clyst Hydon, Ratcliffes in Thorverton, and Ratcliffes in Broad Clyst (all Devon), Ratcliff in Stepney (Middlesex), and Rackley in Compton Bishop (Somerset). The placenames derive from Old English rēad ‘red’ + clif ‘cliff, bank, steep slope’ (see also Rutley ). A family of the name Radcliffe trace their descent from Sir Nicholas de Radclyffe. He is said to have been a knight who held the major of Radcliffe in Lancashire and served Roger de Poitou, Baron de Marsey in the 11th century.
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