When Nancy Ruth Alderman was born in May 1837, in Moultrie, Colquitt, Georgia, United States, her father, William C. Alderman, was 39 and her mother, Sarah ‘Sallie’ Edmondson, was 35. She married John Tillman Norman about 1851, in Colquitt, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in District 1020, Colquitt, Georgia, United States in 1880 and Barney, Brooks, Georgia, United States in 1900. She died on 28 December 1906, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 69.
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A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Colquitt, Georgia, United States
English (southern): status name from Middle English alderman, Old English ealdorman, literally ‘elder’. Before the Norman Conquest this term denoted a high official with authority over a district; by the 12th century it had come to denote a member of the governing body of a city or borough, or the governor of a craft guild.
Americanized form of German Aldermann: variant of Altermann (see Alterman ), a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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