Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Simons was born on 24 March 1851, in Morrow, Ohio, United States, her father, Josiah Frederick Simmons, was 25 and her mother, Catherine A. Weirick, was 24. She married Benjamin Franklin Hathaway on 17 February 1870, in Morrow, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Canaan Township, Morrow, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Perry Township, Morrow, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 3 April 1905, in Fredericktown, Knox, Ohio, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Ohio, United States.
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- Rebecca Hathaway in household of Benj F Hathaway, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Rebecca Simons - birth-name: Rebecca Simons
- Rebecca Simons, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Simon , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
North German, Dutch, Flemish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Simon . This surname is also found in France (Nord, Alsace, and Lorraine). In North America it has also absorbed various European cognates and their derivatives, e.g. Slovenian Simončič and Simonič, Slovak Šimončič and Šimonič (see Simoncic and Simonic ). Compare Simonds .
History: This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its altered form Simonds in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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