Brief Life History of Susan
When Susan Ferris was born in December 1814, in Linwood, Spencer Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, her father, John Jay Ferris, was 27 and her mother, Ruth Knapp, was 25. She married John William Bassett in 1836, in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Spencer Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 January 1884, in Linwood, Spencer Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
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- Susan Bassett in household of Ruth Ferris, "United States Census, 1860"
- Susan Basset, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"
- Susan Ferris in entry for Charles Ferris Bassett, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fearghuis or Ó Fearghasa ‘descendant of Fearghus’, or from the Scottish-Gaelic form of this personal name, Fearghus (see Fergus ).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire, Eure and Ferrières, La Manche in Normandy, France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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