Brief Life History of William
When William Workman was born on 25 May 1814, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, his father, Samuel P Workman, was 19 and his mother, Elizabeth Ockerman Jr, was 28. He married Rachel Workman on 7 August 1834, in Brown, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Clay Township, Highland, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died on 28 August 1891, in Salem Township, Highland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Highland, Ohio, United States.
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- William Workman, "United States Census, 1880"
- William Workman, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- William Workman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
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.
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
English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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