Brief Life History of Harriet A.
When Harriet A. Buchanan was born in 1830, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Buchanan, was 67 and her mother, Lucinda Mary "Lucy" East, was 38. She married William M. Stanfield on 9 September 1868, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 25 November 1905, in Donelson, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Harriet Buchanan in household of Lucinda Buchanan, "United States Census, 1850"
- Harriet Buchanan, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Mrs Harriet Stanfield, "Tennessee, Davidson County, Death Records, 1900-1913"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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