When Elizabeth S. Hussey was born on 1 August 1823, in Fancy Creek Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, her father, Nathan Allyn Hussey, was 37 and her mother, Mary Stewart, was 37. She married William S Lynch on 23 March 1843, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Round Prairie Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Buchanan Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States in 1870. She died on 24 February 1890, in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Des Moines, Michigan Territory, United States 1836: Des Moines, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1836: Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Iowa Territory, United States 1839: Jefferson, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Jefferson, Iowa, Unites States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: of Norman origin, a nickname for someone who habitually wore a distinctive pair of boots or gaiters, from Old French hosed, hoset, housé, Middle English hosey, hus(s)y,‘booted, gaitered’ (from Latin hosatus).
English: status name or nickname from Middle English hus(e)wyf ‘mistress of a family; wife of a householder’ (a compound of Old English hūs ‘house’ + wīf ‘woman’). Though originally a woman's name, it is often found as a male surname, presumably in a derogatory sense. The vocabulary word became hussie, with the meaning ‘disreputable woman’, in the 16th century; the surname, however, is not associated with this meaning.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus’. This was the name of a bardic family associated with the Maguires of Fermanagh, also Anglicized as Oswell or Oswald .
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