Dorothy Caroline Mankin

Brief Life History of Dorothy Caroline

When Dorothy Caroline Mankin was born in 1849, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Jeffery Mankin, was 24 and her mother, Nancy E Jones, was 22. She married John G. Crick on 5 July 1866, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Civil District 11, Bedford, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 15, Hickman, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died on 21 March 1923, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Centerville, Hickman, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Alexander Ray
1846–1920
Dorothy Caroline Mankin
1849–1923
Marriage: 20 October 1872
Louis Grant Ray
1874–1929
John Jefferson Mankin Ray
1882–1948
Jordan Crittenden Ray
1885–1962

Sources (25)

  • Caroline Ray in household of John Ray, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Dollie C Mankins - Government record: birth: 1846; Bedford, Tennessee, United States
  • Dollie C Crick, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

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

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English: from a pet form of the personal name Man(n) (see Mann 2), or a nickname from a diminutive of the nounman, with the sense of ‘little man’.

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

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