Caleb Hawk was born on 19 March 1843, in Allegheny Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States as the son of Hawk and Caroline Rugh. He married Susan Elizabeth Swing on 16 February 1870, in Oskaloosa, Jefferson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ozawkie, Jefferson, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Ozawkie Township, Jefferson, Kansas, United States in 1915. He died on 19 December 1919, in Oskaloosa, Jefferson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Oskaloosa, Jefferson, Kansas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Jefferson, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Jefferson, Kansas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: nickname from Middle English havoc, havek, hauk ‘hawk or falcon’ (Old English hafoc). It may have been given to a professional falconer, to someone of a savage or cruel disposition, or to someone who held land by providing hawks for his lord, as in an instance from 1130, where Ralph Hauoc owed the royal Exchequer two ‘girfals’ (i.e. gyrfalcons or hawks).
English: topographic name for a ‘(dweller in) the nook or corner’, from Middle English halke (derived from Old English halh + the diminutive suffix -oc).
English: possibly also a survival into Middle English of the Old English personal name Hafoc, which was originally a nickname from the word ‘hawk, falcon’. It seems to have died out of use as a personal name by c. 1250.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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