Brief Life History of Rachael Elizabeth
When Rachael Elizabeth Conn was born on 22 April 1856, in Cherokee, Georgia, United States, her father, Frances Marion Conn, was 24 and her mother, Mary Malinda Holcombe, was 21. She married Warren Wood on 29 August 1872, in Cherokee, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and Ball Ground, Cherokee, Georgia, United States in 1900. She died on 5 May 1902, in Forsyth, Georgia, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Conns Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Ball Ground, Cherokee, Georgia, United States.
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- Rachel Wood in household of Warren Wood, "United States Census, 1900"
- Rachel Con, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Rachael Elizabeth Conn Wood, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
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
Scottish and Irish (Armagh, Derry): back-formation from Mac Coinn ‘son of Conn’, the early Gaelic personal name usually interpreted as ‘reason, wisdom’ or ‘head, chieftain’; its genitive in surnames is Coinn[e], see Quinn .
Irish: shortened form of McConn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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