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Personal data Malissa Lydia Thornhill 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Sources 1, 2, 4, 5
  • She was born in the year 1800 in Old Pike County, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten.Sources 1, 2, 5

    Waarschuwing Attention: Was younger than 16 years (0) when child (Silas C Rushing) was born (??-??-1741) .

  • Resident:
    • in the year 1850: Police District 2, Pike, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten.Source 1
    • in the year 1860: Holmesville, Pike County, MS.Source 4
    • in the year 1870: Township 1 Ranges 10 and 11, Pike, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten.Source 5
  • She died in the year 1875 in Tylertown, Walthall, Mississippi, United States, she was 75 years old.Source 2
  • She is buried in Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi, United States of America.Source 2

Household of Malissa Lydia Thornhill

She is married to Jack Claiborne Rushing.

They got married on October 21, 1819 at Pike County, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten, she was 19 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Silas C Rushing  1741-1865
  2. John Calvin Rushing  1820-1901
  3. Elizabeth Rushing  1822-1883
  4. Elvira Rushing  ± 1824-1850
  5. Wiley J Rushing  1825-1905
  6. Clarkey Rushing  1827-1905
  12. Norvil E. Rushing  1835-1909
  13. Uriah Kent Rushing  1837-1905 
  14. Betsy Rushing  1840-< 1850
  15. Silas C Rushing  1842-1865
  16. Matthew M Rushing  1842-1866

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Sources

  1. 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree / Ancestry.com
  4. Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1805-1890, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  5. 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Day of marriage October 21, 1819

  • The temperature on October 21, 1819 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken bui hagel weerlicht winderig. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1819: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 22 » By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
    • May 25 » The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
    • June 16 » A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6m high, 6km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80km, that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").
    • June 20 » The U.S. vessel SSSavannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
    • August 6 » Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
    • August 16 » Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.

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