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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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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