Brief Life History of Rhoda Elizabeth
When Rhoda Elizabeth Patterson was born in 1837, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, her father, Robert h. Patterson, was 39 and her mother, Cecelia Holeman, was 36. She married Jared E Fair Kirksey on 5 October 1858, in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Romulus, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States in 1860. She died on 1 February 1865, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Grants Creek Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States.
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- Elizabeth Kirksey in household of J E T Kirksey, "United States Census, 1860"
- R.E. Patterson, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
- Rhoda Elizabeth Patterson Kirksey, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (3)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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