Lydia Ann Knapp

Female5 April 1829–29 December 1868

Brief Life History of Lydia Ann

Lydia Ann Knapp was born on 5 April 1829, in New York, United States. She married William Erastus Seekins on 8 September 1844, in Bark River, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Lima, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States in 1860. She died on 29 December 1868, at the age of 39, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Sac City, Sac, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Erastus Seekins
1819–1895
Lydia Ann Knapp
1829–1868
Marriage: 8 September 1844
Marian Elizabeth Seekins
1848–1918
Franklin Seekins
1850–
Alice Paulina Seekins
1852–1929

Sources (9)

  • Lidy A Seekins in household of Erastus Seekins, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Lydia A Knapp, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
  • Lydia Ann Knapp Seekins, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    8 September 1844Bark River, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States

    • Children (3)

    World Events (8)

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 1

    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.

    1836

    Age 7

    The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin - Sept 3, 1836 Treaty Treaty of the Cedars was concluded on the Fox River on September 3, 1836. The Menominee Nation ceded nearly 4 million acres of land for the following items every year for twenty years: $3,000 worth of food provisions, 2,000 lbs. of tobacco, 30 barrels of salt, agricultural supplies, and $500 per year. (Wisconsin Historical Society)

    1846

    Age 17

    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    Name Meaning

    German: occupational or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant, apprentice’, and ‘miner’. This surname is also found elsewhere in central Europe, e.g. in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more commonly spelled Knap (compare 3 below).

    German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person, of the same ultimate origin as 1 above.

    Germanized or Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Rusyn, and Slovenian Knap , a surname of ultimately German origin (see 1 above).

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

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