Brief Life History of Rhoda Fransis
When Rhoda Fransis Vance was born on 12 May 1863, in Alpine, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, John Wesley Vance, was 32 and her mother, Rhoda Francis Freestone, was 18. She married Julius Conrad Beck on 13 March 1889, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She died on 9 January 1937, in Alpine, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Alpine, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Rhoda Francis Beck, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Birth and Baptism record of Rhoda Frances Vance, 1863
- Rhoda F Vance, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Scottish: apparently a spelling pronunciation of Vans, a misreading of Vaus (see Vause ), in which -u- has been miscopied as -n-. If true, it is probably limited to the Vans or Vaus family of Wigtownshire. It may be this surname that appears in Ireland from the early 17th century, especially in Ulster, but it could alternatively be the English name in 2 below.
English: if not a transcription error for Vause (a surname well evidenced in Warwickshire and Leicestershire), a variant of Vann , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Rhoda Freestone
Rhoda Freestone is the second wife of John Wesley Vance Rhoda Freestone Vance was born December 24, 1844 at Huntsville, Harden County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Thomas Freestone and Ann F …
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