When Hiram Grindle was born in 1832, in Lumpkin, Georgia, United States, his father, James T Grindle Jr, was 40 and his mother, Nancy Thomason, was 34. He married Martha Howard on 16 January 1853, in Lumpkin, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and District 999, Lumpkin, Georgia, United States in 1880.
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Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
Historical Boundaries: 1832: Lumpkin, Georgia, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: topographic name from Middle English grene ‘green’ + dale ‘dale, valley’ or hille, hull ‘hill’, or a habitational name from placenames meaning ‘green valley’ (Old English grēne + Old English dæl, dell, or Old Norse dalr), such as Greendale in Devon and Cumbria, Grindale in East Yorkshire, or a lost place originally called Grendale, Gryndale in Loftus (North Yorkshire), possibly identical with modern Grinkle in nearby Easington.
English: variant of Greenhill , with an intrusive -d-, as illustrated by the placename Grindle, in Ryton (Shropshire), which appears as Grenehull in Middle English but as Grendull and Grendle in the 16th century.
South German: from Middle High German grindel ‘latch, beam, pole’, probably a metonymic occupational name for a doorman.
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