Brief Life History of Catherine S.
When Catherine S. Usher was born on 16 June 1807, in Coles Creek, Calhoun, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Usher, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Daniel Watkins, was 17. She married Dr. Isaac Hamberlin on 22 December 1823, in Jefferson, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Yazoo City, Yazoo, Mississippi, United States in 1850 and Yazoo, Mississippi, United States in 1860. She died on 29 August 1882, in Phoenix, Yazoo, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 75.
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- C Hamberlin, "United States Census, 1860"
- Catherine Usher, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
- Catherine Usher in entry for Isaac Hamberlain, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1817
Mississippi is the 20th state.
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English usher ‘usher, doorkeeper’, Old French (le) ussier, huissier, Anglo-Norman French usser, from Late Latin ustiarius, a derivative of classical Latin ostium ‘door, gate’. The term was also used in the Middle Ages of a court official charged with accompanying a person of rank on ceremonial occasions, and this may be a partial source of the surname. This name has been in Ireland since 1302, when John le Ussher was constable of Dublin Castle, and has sometimes been used as an equivalent of Hesson .
Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): from a southern Yiddish pronunciation of the Yiddish male personal name Osher (Hebrew Asher ).
History: Hezekiah Usher (died 1676) is buried in King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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