Brief Life History of Keziah
When Keziah Gilmore was born on 19 March 1812, in Ohio, United States, her father, John Gilmore, was 23 and her mother, Mary Ann Porter, was 17. She married Jesse Wiseley on 25 September 1833, in Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Wayne Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States in 1870 and Big Lick, Hancock, Ohio, United States in 1880. She died on 15 March 1891, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, United States.
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- Kezia Gilmore, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Keziah Gilmore - Individual or family possessions: birth: 15 March 1812; Ohio, United States
- Keziah Gilmore Wiseley, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1821
History: Findlay derived its name from Colonel James Findlay, Commander of the second regiment in the War of 1812. It was first laid out in 1821 by Joseph Vance and Elnathan Cory. Wilson Vance gave the town of Findlay its name.
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
Scottish and Irish (Ulster and Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish), patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant (i.e. devotee) of (the Virgin) Mary’.
Irish: in Sligo, shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.
English: habitational name from Gillamoor in Rydale (North Yorkshire), from Old English Gedling (‘place called after Gētla’, from the Old English personal name Gētla + the connective particle -ing) + mōr ‘moor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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