Brief Life History of Asa Alexander
Asa Alexander Trotter was born on 15 October 1854, in Briar Hill, Pike, Alabama, United States. He married Frances M. Milligan on 26 December 1876, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 15 Indian Branch, Pike, Alabama, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 11 Mitchells, Pike, Alabama, United States in 1920. He died on 28 September 1925, in Crenshaw, Alabama, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Antioch, Pike, Alabama, United States.
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- Asa A Trotter Sr., "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Asa Alexander Trotter - Government record: birth-name: Asa Alexander Trotter
- Asa Alexander Trotter, "Hawaii, Marriages, 1826-1954"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866
Historical Boundaries: 1866: Crenshaw, Alabama, United States
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (northern; also found in southern Scotland): perhaps from an unrecorded sense of Middle English trotter ‘one who rides a trotting horse’, a derivative of Middle English trotten ‘to ride at a trot, at a fast pace’. It may have been given to a messenger (see Trotman ). Alternatively, perhaps from a shortened form of an unrecorded Middle English trotterer ‘dealer in trotting horses’, a derivative of Middle English trotter (Old French trotier) ‘horse that trots’.
German: occupational name for a vintner, from a derivative of Middle High German trot(t)e ‘winepress’ (a loan translation from Latin calcatura). The word and the surname are confined largely to Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland, and Swabia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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