Nancy Rebecca Lee

Brief Life History of Nancy Rebecca

When Nancy Rebecca Lee was born on 6 February 1836, in Williamsburg, South Carolina, United States, her father, Rev L Jonathan Lee, was 22 and her mother, Marion Pollyanna Major, was 24. She married James W Higginbotham on 3 July 1856, in Blount, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1880 and Election Precinct 16, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1900. She died in 1910, in Blount, Alabama, United States, at the age of 74.

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Family Time Line

James W Higginbotham
1824–1902
Nancy Rebecca Lee
1836–1910
Marriage: 3 July 1856
Clemmons Clay Higginbotham
1857–1908
Emily Higginbotham
1859–
Mary Elizabeth Higginbotham
1861–1938
Ophelia Adline Higginbotham
1863–1922
Lela Martha Higginbotham
1867–
Mosella Amerilla Higgingbotham
1868–1936
James C Higginbotham Jr
1869–
William Higginbotham
1870–
James Martin Higginbotham
1871–1927

Sources (10)

  • Rebecca Higginbotham in household of James Higginbotham, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Nancy R Lee, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • Lou E. Dorman in entry for Thomas David Dorman, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"

World Events (7)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1860

In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.

English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.

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

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