When Nancy Acord was born on 26 November 1849, in Wyoming, Virginia, United States, her father, Zur Acord, was 19 and her mother, Sarah Ann Oliver, was 20. She married Henry C Trump on 26 May 1880, in Wyoming, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died on 12 September 1942, in Slab Fork District, Wyoming, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 92.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Americanized form of German Eckard or Eckhardt . Compare Achord .
History: The name Andreas Lowrence Acord appears on an 18th-century ship's master's list, corresponding to Andreas Arkhard among the signatures of those taking an oath of allegiance in PA in October 1753. A will written in Staunton County, VA, in 1806 begins ‘‘In the Name of God, Amen, I, Francis Acord …’’ but is signed in German script as Frantz Eckhardt.
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