Brief Life History of Hulda
When Hulda Greenwood was born on 22 February 1842, in Fowler, Trumbull, Ohio, United States, her father, John Richmond Greenwood, was 25 and her mother, Nancy Mariah Norton, was 22. She married James Adams Dunn about 1857. She lived in Conneaut Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 8 September 1877, in Pennline, Conneaut Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Steamburg, Conneaut Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Hulda Seager in household of Silas Seager, "United States Census, 1870"
- Huldah Greenwood Seager, "Find A Grave Index"
- Huldah Dunn in entry for Amanda Nancy Gamber, "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
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World Events (6)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Greenwood Lee in Heptonstall (Yorkshire), from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünholz, an ornamental compound of German grün ‘green’ + Holz ‘wood’, and probably also of the same German surname.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünwald (see Grunwald ), and of French Boisvert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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