Brief Life History of Lee Edwin
When Lee Edwin Forsythe Jr was born on 24 January 1839, in Sigel, Eldred Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Edwin Edward C Forsythe, was 36 and his mother, Fanny Wolford, was 29. He married Rhoda Katherine Duffy on 3 April 1891, in Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Barnett Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Union Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 27 December 1913, in Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in West Sunbury, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Edwin Forsythe in household of Edwin Forsythe, "United States Census, 1850"
- Edward Or Edwin Forsythe, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865
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World Events (7)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Fearsithe, composed of the elements fear ‘man’ + sith ‘peace’. Some early forms with the prepositions, as for example William de Fersith (Edinburgh 1365), seem to point to an alternative origin as a habitational name, but no placename of suitable form is known. The spelling Forsythe is associated chiefly with northern Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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