When Robert Veitch Hesselgrave was born on 10 September 1834, in Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, his father, William E. Hasselgrove, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Veitch, was 22. He married Amanda Livingston about 1855, in Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Verona Township, Faribault, Minnesota, United States in 1900 and Winnebago, Faribault, Minnesota, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 16 February 1919, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Winnebago, Faribault, Minnesota, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Wisconsin Territory, United States 1849: Minnesota Territory, United States 1849: Ramsey, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Ramsey, Minnesota, United States
Minnesota is the 32nd state.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from a lost place called Hesselgreave in Yorkshire or from Hazel Grove in North Yorkshire, or else a topographic name for a person who lived in or near a place where hazels grew, from Old English hæsel, Old Norse hesli ‘hazel’ + OE grǣfe ‘grove, thicket’. But the North Yorkshire placename also contains a Middle English form of Old Norse gryfja ‘hole, pit’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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