Thomas P. Hanna

Brief Life History of Thomas P.

When Thomas P. Hanna was born on 21 January 1829, in Giles, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Hanna, was 45 and his mother, Mary Cutbirth, was 29. He married Nancy Maria Dixon on 6 September 1853, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He registered for military service in 1891. He died on 9 January 1898, in Stella, Giles, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Stella, Giles, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas P. Hanna
1829–1898
Nancy Maria Dixon
1829–1917
Marriage: 6 September 1853
Mary Elenetta Hanna
1855–1922
Henry C. Hannah
1856–1894
James A. Hannah
1858–1914
Rachel V. Hannah
1859–1960
Helen Hanna
1861–1957
Tennessee C Hanna
1862–1862
Anna Lee Smith
1864–1920
Alonzo L. Hannah
1864–
Thomas Jefferson Hanna
1866–1910
Malissa "Lizzie" Hanna
1867–1957
Finis Ewing Hanna
1869–1954

Sources (22)

  • Thomas Hanna, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Thomas Hanna, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Thomas Hanna, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

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.

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

Name Meaning

Irish (Down and Antrim) and Scottish: from Gaelic Ó hAnnaigh ‘descendant of Annach’, a personal name of uncertain origin, or from Gaelic Ó hÉanna ‘descendant of Éanna’, also unexplained but well attested. See also Hannan . It has been suggested that the name may also derive from Sheanaigh, a genitive case form of the Gaelic personal name Seanach, but this is untenable. This was one of very few ‘Ó’ surnames to be used in Scotland, a phenomenon which was confined to the Galloway and Carrick region.

English: habitational name from Hannah (Lincolnshire), possibly derived from the Old English personal name Hana or Old English hana ‘cock’ + ēg ‘island’.

English: sometimes in East Anglia a variant of Henney .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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