Brief Life History of Rhoda
When Rhoda Bird was born on 4 February 1856, in Washington, Illinois, United States, her father, Thomas Booker Bird, was 30 and her mother, Polly Ann Ayers, was 23. She married James R. Lee on 19 April 1872, in Travis, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Austin, Texas, United States in 1870. She died on 30 June 1875, in Travis, Texas, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Austin, Travis, Texas, United States.
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- Rhoda A Bird in household of Thos Bird, "United States Census, 1860"
- Rhoda E Bird, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Rhoda E Bird Lee, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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