Brief Life History of Hannah Elizabeth
When Hannah Elizabeth Abernathy was born on 5 October 1849, in Indiana, United States, her father, John Abernathy, was 20 and her mother, Mariah Smith, was 21. She married Alfred Hays on 30 June 1870, in Monroe, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cedar Township, Lucas, Iowa, United States in 1870 and Ross Township, Osborne, Kansas, United States in 1900. She died on 2 September 1907, in Osborne, Kansas, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Downs, Osborne, Kansas, United States.
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- Elizabeth Hays in household of Alfred Hays, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hannah Elizabeth Abernathy - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Hannah Elizabeth Abernathy
- Bette Abernatha, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Abernethy in southeastern Perthshire. The placename is of Pictish origin, meaning ‘mouth of the river Nethy’.
History: This was the name of a cadet branch of MacDuff earls of Fife and one of the surnames of the Scots who settled in northern Ireland during the ‘plantation’ in the 17th century, and it was brought to the US as the name of a Southern plantation owner (in a different sense of the word ‘plantation’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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