Brief Life History of Anna Elisabetha
When Anna Elisabetha Haas was born on 24 May 1827, in Germany, her father, Joannes Haas, was 33 and her mother, Anna Eipes, was 28. She married Ezra Denison Willson on 19 September 1853, in Brady Township, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States in 1870 and Yankee Springs Township, Barry, Michigan, United States for about 30 years. She died on 8 June 1911, in Barry, Michigan, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bowerman Cemetery, Middleville, Thornapple Township, Barry, Michigan, United States.
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- Annie E Wilson in household of Ed Wilson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Elizabeth Haas, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Elizabeth Anne Willson, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1837
Michigan is the 26th state.
1849
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Name Meaning
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German, Middle Dutch hase, German Hase ‘hare’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a hare (i.e. for a swift runner or perhaps a timorous person) or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a hare. As a Jewish name it can also be an artificial name or one of names randomly selected from vocabulary words by government officials when surnames became compulsory. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In the Netherlands and Germany it is in part of French (Huguenot) origin, a translation into Dutch or German of the French surname Lelièvre ‘the hare’ (see Lelievre ). Compare De Haas .
German and Dutch: from the personal name Hase with an indistinct origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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