Brief Life History of Hezekiah
When Hezekiah Knight Hotchkiss was born on 9 December 1793, in Amherst, Virginia, United States, his father, Jared Hotchkiss, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Knight, was 27. He married Lydia G. Mead on 5 January 1813, in Roane, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Ruddell Township, Independence, Arkansas, United States in 1850. He died after 1851, in Independence, Arkansas, United States.
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Sources (6)
- H K Hotchkiss, "United States Census, 1850"
- Hezekiah K Hotchkiss, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Arkansas Probate Records, 1817-1979; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WQ-MVKC?cc=2061549&wc=M7QZ-H29%3A353226101%2C353248501
Spouse and Children
1793–1851 Male
1792–1850 Female
Children (12)
1815–1877 Female
1817–1852 Male
1817–1875 Female
1819–1884 Female
1821– Female
+7 More Children
Parents and Siblings
1761–1838 Male
1766–1846 Female
Siblings (10)
1793–1851 Male
1795– Male
1797– Female
1798– Male
1798– Male
+5 More Children
World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
Age 1
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 7
1812
Age 19
Name Meaning
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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