Olivia Minerva Hawley

Brief Life History of Olivia Minerva

When Olivia Minerva Hawley was born on 22 January 1800, in Vermont, United States, her father, Jared Hawley, was 40 and her mother, Betsy Ransom, was 19. She married Stephen Thayer in 1820. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Russell Center, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1840 and Sutton, Brome, Quebec, Canada in 1851. She died on 4 October 1853, in Hambden, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Russell Township Riverview Cemetery, Russell Center, Geauga, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Stephen Thayer
1794–1837
Olivia Minerva Hawley
1800–1853
Marriage: 1820
Julia Thayer
1820–1880
George Anson Thayer
1821–1909
Merritt Thayer
1823–1871
Jared Thayer
1828–1892
Stephen Thayer
1831–1907
Virgil Thayer
1834–1906
Aaron Thayer
1837–1911

Sources (11)

  • Oliva Thayer, "United States, Census, 1840"
  • Olivia Thayer, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
  • Thayer, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1803

Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.

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. 

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from a lost place called Hawley in Sheffield (Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old Norse haugr ‘hill, burial mound’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

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

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