Brief Life History of Amanda Penelope
When Amanda Penelope Bacon was born on 24 February 1832, in Trumbull, Ohio, United States, her father, Dwight Bacon, was 27 and her mother, Phebe Benson, was 23. She married John L Husted on 8 January 1851, in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Trenton, Grundy, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Trenton Township, Grundy, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 5 December 1911, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Highland Cemetery, Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States.
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- Amanda Husted in household of John L Husted, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Amanda - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Amanda Penelope Bacon
- Amanda P. Bacon, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1834
Historical Boundaries: 1834: Grundy, Missouri, United States
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.
1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the Norman French personal name Bacun, derived from the ancient Germanic name Bac(c)o, Bahho, based on the element bag ‘(to) fight, (to) dispute’. The name was relatively common among the Normans in the form Bacus, of which the oblique case was Bacon.
English and French: from Middle English, Old French bacun, bacon ‘bacon’ (a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to Back 3), probably a metonymic occupational name for a preparer and seller of cured pork.
History: Gilles Bacon from Normandy, France, is documented in Quebec City, QC, in 1647. — Michael Bacon from England arrived in Dedham, MA, in 1640. Nathanial Bacon, from Stratton, Cornwall, arrived in Barnstaple, MA, in 1639. Another Nathaniel Bacon (1647–76), from Friston Hall, Suffolk, emigrated to VA and settled at Curl's Neck on the James river.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Amanda Penelope Bacon Husted (24 February 1832 – )
Wichita Eagle, Wednesday, December 6, 1911, Page 5 "AGED WOMAN DIES" Mrs. Amanda Husted, wife of J. L. Husted, died at her home on Fees avenue, in the southeast suburbs of this city yesterday …
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