Brief Life History of Susan Sukey
When Susan Sukey Farnham was born on 18 March 1784, in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States, her father, Samuel Farnum, was 36 and her mother, Dorcas Bragg, was 32. She married Sgt. Samuel J Hosmer on 4 November 1804, in Orland, Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Vance, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States in 1870 and Election Precinct 16 Courthouse, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died on 1 June 1880, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Big Hurricane Cemetery, Brookwood, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States.
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- Susan Hosmer, "United States Census, 1880"
- Susanna Farnum, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Sukey Farnum, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
1789
Historical Boundaries: 1789: Hancock, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Hancock, Maine, United States
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Farnham in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Suffolk, Surrey, and Yorkshire, all named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + either hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water, a water-meadow’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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