Brief Life History of Mary Susannah
When Mary Susannah Summer was born in 1779, in Lexington, South Carolina, United States, her father, John Henry Summers, was 33 and her mother, Clementine Christina Dominick, was 33. She married Abrahart Fulmer in 1799, in Lexington, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1840, in her hometown, at the age of 61, and was buried in Chapin, Lexington, South Carolina, United States.
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- Mary Susanna Summer Fulmer, "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.
1788 · South Carolina becomes the 8th state in the Union
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina ratifies the Constitution of the United States making it the 8th State of the Union.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English (Old English) personal name Sumor, Sumer, originally a nickname from Middle English sum(m)er ‘summer’, and perhaps still a nickname (compare 4 below) in the period of surname formation. The personal name is not independently recorded but in England appears in the placenames Somersall (Derbyshire) and Somersham (Suffolk and Cambridgeshire).
English: occupational name from Middle English somer, somour, perhaps a shortened form of sommerer, somerour ‘packhorse man, carrier’, itself a derivative of Middle English somer (Old French sommier) ‘beast of burden, packhorse’. Alternatively, the name may imply ‘porter, carrier’. It is possible that somer and somour are derivatives of Middle English som(m)e, sum(m)e ‘weight’, derived from Old French somme, some ‘weight, burden’. Compare Middle English seme, some (Old English sēam, sēom) ‘load, burden, weight’. This surname is widely recorded across medieval England but the absence of any Middle English examples with the definite article and of any relevant contextual evidence makes an occupational sense difficult to confirm. However, the Middle English surname Somister, which appears to be occupational (see Sumpter ), may imply the existence of a twin form Somer, similar to pairs like Baker and Baxter, Webber and Webster.
English: possibly also from a Middle English assimilated form of Sumner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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