Brief Life History of Barbara
When Barbara Nash was born on 2 May 1809, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States, her father, Reuben Acton Nash, was 45 and her mother, Margaret Sarah Strozier, was 41. She married James Bonner R Smith on 13 December 1827, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Eastern Division, Walker, Alabama, United States in 1860 and Alabama, United States in 1870. She died on 28 February 1889, in Butler, Alabama, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Midway, Butler, Alabama, United States.
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- Barberee Smith in household of James Smith, "United States Census, 1870"
- Barbary Nash, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Barbara Nash Headstone
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1819
Historical Boundaries: 1819: Butler, Alabama, United States
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, a variant of Ash by misdivision of Middle English atten ash ‘at the ash’, or a habitational name from any of the many places in England and Wales named Nash, from this phrase, as for example Nash in Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, or Shropshire. The name was established from an early date in Wales and Ireland.
Jewish: possibly an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
History: The surname Nash was taken to Ireland from England or Wales by a family who established themselves in County Kerry in the 13th century, during the second wave of Anglo-Norman settlement. — Abner Nash (c. 1740–86), governor of NC, was of Welsh origin, his parents having emigrated to VA from Wales in 1730. His brother Francis (c. 1742–77) was a general in the Continental army; the city of Nashville, TN, was named in his honor.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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