When Susan Tennessee Sims was born in May 1849, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Mathias Matthew Sims, was 73 and her mother, Sally Roberson, was 36. She married Thomas Lafayette Rhodes on 14 February 1883, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 16, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 January 1929, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Milton, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English (southern):
variant of Sim , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
topographic name for one who lived or worked at the house of someone called Symme (Simon).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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