Nancy A White

Brief Life History of Nancy A

When Nancy A White was born on 25 June 1851, her father, John B. White, was 26 and her mother, Lucinda Frost, was 18. She married Ephraim Brown on 13 April 1871, in Taylorville, Christian, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Centerville Township, Linn, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Ozark Township, Anderson, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 30 November 1935, at the age of 84, and was buried in Colony Township, Greeley, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ephraim Brown
1851–1930
Nancy A White
1851–1935
Marriage: 13 April 1871
Josephine Edna Brown
1872–1920
John Tilson Brown
1875–1920
Florence I. Brown
1877–1958
Lafayette Lightfoot Brown
1882–1972
Jesse Lorand Brown
1882–1968
Arthur Lee Brown
1884–1965
Sadie Mae Brown
1887–1980
Addie Myrtle Brown
1892–1950

Sources (22)

  • Nancy White in household of John White, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Nancy A White, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
  • Nancy Ann White Brown, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1854

Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.

1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World

William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

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.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.

Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.

Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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