Brief Life History of Olive
When Olive Freeman was born on 17 October 1780, her father, Frederick Freeman, was 25 and her mother, Abigail Thompson, was 21. She married Rodney Hanks in January 1803, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States for about 20 years. She died on 7 January 1871, at the age of 90, and was buried in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.
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- Olive Hanks in household of Mundy Hanks, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mansfield. Birth Records 1848–1877, Marriage Records 1848–1877, Death Records 1848–1877, Death Records 1868–1901, Vital Statistic Indexes 1686–1901, Birth Records 1868–1901, Marriage Records 1868–1901
- Olive Freeman Hanks, "Find A Grave Index"
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1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
1785
Founded
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English freman, fremon ‘freeman, free-born man’ (Old English frēomann, frīgmann), used also occasionally as a personal name. As an African American surname it was in many cases adopted as a name denoting a man freed of slavery. See also Fryman and Free .
Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery ).
Americanized form of French Lafrenière (see Lafreniere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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