Brief Life History of Nancy Ann
When Nancy Ann Graham was born on 23 July 1846, in Lafayette, Montgomery, Virginia, United States, her father, Mitchell Morrison Graham, was 21 and her mother, Elizabeth Richardson, was 28. She married James Elmer Patrick on 20 December 1867, in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Montgomery, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Pearisburg, Giles, Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 27 March 1934, in Webster, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in United States.
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- Nancy A Graham in household of Morrison Graham, "United States Census, 1850"
- Nancy A Graham, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Nancy Ann Bailey, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
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1847 · Hollywood Cemetery Established
Hollywood Cemetery was established in 1847 in Richmond Virginia. This is where Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler are buried. During the Civil War it became the largest military interments and a large section dedicated to military burials. Jefferson Davis a well known Confederate is also buried here. Many other notable people are also buried here.
1854 · Name change
Name changed from Giles Court House to Pearisburg in 1854.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Graham (as well as Grantham, Grandham, and Granham). See also Grantham .
Irish (especially Ulster): in Ireland Graham is generally the Scottish name, but it has additionally been adopted as an Anglicized form of both Ó Creacháin (see Crehan ) and Ó Gormghaile (see Gormley ).
History: The surname Graham was taken to Scotland at the beginning of the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham, holder of the manor of Grantham in Lincolnshire, from whom many if not all modern bearers are probably descended. The chief of Clan Graham is the Duke of Montrose.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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