Brief Life History of Patsey
When Patsey Needham was born in 1797, in Seagrove, Randolph, North Carolina, United States, her father, Lewis Wesley Needham, was 26 and her mother, Amy Rosalee Tucker, was 23. She married David Eddleman on 25 January 1821, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. She died in 1830, at the age of 33.
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- Patsy Needham, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Patsy Needham, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Patsy Needham, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow ""rock"" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the ""rock"" was a gold nugget.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so named, such as High Needham in Hartington (Derbyshire), Needham in Elm (Cambridgeshire), Needham (Norfolk), Needham in Yaxley, Needham Street in Gazeley or Needham Market (all in Suffolk). These places are named with Old English nēd ‘need, hardship’ + hām ‘homestead’, denoting a place that provided a poor living.
Irish (County Mayo): Anglicized form of Ó Niadh, see Nee .
History: English explorer James Needham carried the name to the southern Carolina settlement, arriving from Barbados in 1670 as a young man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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