Brief Life History of Rachel Ann
When Rachel Ann Adams was born in November 1833, in Gloucester, New Jersey, United States, her father, Richard Adams, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Ela, was 31. She married Richard Hackney on 6 December 1851, in Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Galloway Township, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States in 1880 and Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States for about 20 years. She died on 23 June 1922, in Pleasantville, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Pleasantville, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States.
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- Rachel A Adams, "United States Census, 1850"
- Rachel Ann Adams, "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956"
- Rachel Ann Adams Hackney, "Find A Grave Index"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1837
Historical Boundaries 1693: New Jersey Colony, British Colonial America 1710: Gloucester, new Jersey Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Gloucester, New Jersey, United States 1837: Atlantic, New Jersey, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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