Brief Life History of Rhoda
Rhoda Adams was born on 15 March 1827, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States as the daughter of James Adams and Mrs. Adams. She married John Weiss on 11 April 1852, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Grayson, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Wilson Creek District, Grayson, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 15 August 1908, in Wilson Creek, Grayson, Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Grayson, Virginia, United States.
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- Rhoda Weiss in household of Mitchel Anderson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Rhoda Adams Weiss, "Find A Grave Index"
- Rhoda Adams in entry for John Weys, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1853 · First State Fair
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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