Brief Life History of Ramath Paralee Ruthe
When Ramath Paralee Ruthe Porterfield was born in March 1846, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Charles Alburn Porterfield, was 36 and her mother, Catherine Lemons, was 29. She married Andrew Jackson Tubb on 20 May 1876, in Oregon, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Eminence, Shannon, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died in 1905, in Shannon, Missouri, United States, at the age of 59.
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- R A Porterfield in household of John Lemonds, "United States Census, 1860"
- Reman Porterfield & Andrew J. Tubbs, "Missouri, Marriages, 1750-1920"
- Reman Porterfield in entry for Andrew J Tubbs, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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World Events (6)
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English porter(e) ‘gatekeeper, doorkeeper’ + feld ‘open country, bounded piece of land’, referring to the hereditary lands owned by a porter of a monastery (see Porter 1), taken as a surname by the descendants of such an official. Black suggests that they would originally have been known as Porter but extended their name when ‘territorial surnames’ became fashionable.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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