When Lucy Hearn was born in 1784, in Maryland, United States, her father, William Hearn, was 22 and her mother, Charity Spencer, was 11. She married Wilson Hearne on 22 August 1807, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 23 July 1828, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Shop Springs, Wilson, Tennessee, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
Irish (Waterford and Kilkenny): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEachthighearna ‘descendant of Eachthighearna’, a personal name meaning ‘lord of horses’, from each ‘horse’ + tighearna ‘master, lord’.
English: topographic name from Middle English herne, hirne, or hurne, from Old English hyrne ‘nook or corner of land’ (i.e. an out-of-the-way, secluded place) or ‘bend of a river’. The name may also be habitational, from Herne (Kent), Hurn (Dorset), or Hirn (Hampshire), with the same etymology as the topographic term. In post-medieval English pronunciation the three forms have converged and the spellings become interchangeable. Hurn may sometimes have been pronounced and spelled the same as the surname Horn .
English: habitational name from Herne in Tottington, Bedfordshire, so called from the dative plural (originally used after a preposition) of Old English hær ‘stone’, i.e. ‘at the stones’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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