When Lucy Ann Harris was born on 7 July 1809, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Higgason Harris, was 35 and her mother, Nancy Ann Garland, was 30. She married John Martin Ogan on 6 August 1835, in Boone, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in San Jose Judicial Township, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1860 and Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1870. She died on 2 October 1877, in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
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.
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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