Brief Life History of Rachel
When Rachel Taylor was born in 1827, in Russell, Virginia, United States, her father, Nimrod Taylor, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth 'Betsy' Witt, was 28. She married Henry Dye about 1848, in Russell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 daughters. She lived in Honaker, Russell, Virginia, United States in 1870. She died on 16 September 1919, in Russell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 92.
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- Rachel Dye in household of Henry Dye, "United States Census, 1870"
- Rachel, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Rachael Dye, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"
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World Events (8)
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1842 · Established
Honaker was established in 1842.
1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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