Ralph Hart Ensign

3 November 1834–22 March 1917 (Age 82)
Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

The Life Summary of Ralph Hart

When Ralph Hart Ensign was born on 3 November 1834, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Moses Ensign, was 40 and his mother, Martha Tuller Whiting, was 37. He married Susan M Toy on 21 July 1863, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1860 and Forsyth, Monroe, Georgia, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 22 March 1917, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ralph Hart Ensign
1834–1917
Susan M Toy
1838–1910
Marriage: 21 July 1863
Sadie Belle Ensign
1864–1868
Joseph Ralph Ensign
1868–1941
Susan A Ensign
1873–1951
Julia Whiting Ensign
1878–1943
Edward William Ensign
1881–1884

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  • Marriage
    21 July 1863Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
    • Children

    (5)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (7)

    +2 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1835 · Treaty of New Echota
    Age 1
    A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
    1836 · Remember the Alamo
    Age 2
    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.
    1861
    Age 27
    Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.

    Name Meaning

    English: of uncertain etymology. From the 16th to the 19th century, the English vocabulary word ensign denoted a junior rank of infantry officer, which may be the source of the surname.History: James Ensign (known as ‘the Puritan’) was born in Chilham, Kent,England, in 1606 and came to Hartford, CT, before 1644.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Sources (30)

    • Ralphy H Ensign, "Connecticut, Military Census Questionnaires, 1917"
    • Ralph Hart Ensign, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
    • Ralph Ensign, "United States Census, 1870"

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