Brief Life History of Amelia
When Amelia Hurst was born in 1753, in Stafford, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Henry Hurst, was 24 and her mother, Ann Pyke, was 23. She had at least 8 sons and 2 daughters with Samuel Washington Beeler. She died on 24 June 1824, in Oxford, Butler, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Oxford, Butler, Ohio, United States.
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- Amelia Hurst Beeler, "Find A Grave Index"
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1775
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a wood or wooded hill, from Middle English hirst(e), herst(e), hurst(e) (Old English hyrst) or a habitational name from any of the places so called, such as Hurst Green (in Mitton, Lancashire), Hirst (Northumberland), Hurst (Berkshire, Kent, Warwickshire), Hurstpierpoint (Sussex), or Hirst in Longwood (Yorkshire).
Irish: re-Anglicized form of de Horsaigh, the Gaelicized form of the English habitational name Horsey , established in Ireland since the 13th century.
German and Swiss German (also Hürst): topographic name from Middle High German hurst ‘woodland, thicket’; or a habitational name from a place so named in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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