Brief Life History of Hiram
When Hiram Brooks was born on 16 January 1826, in Mooresburg, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Brooks, was 39 and his mother, Anna Mooney, was 25. He married Katherine Price on 6 January 1853, in Rogersville, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and District 11, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 14 May 1891, in Mooresburg, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States.
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- Hiram Brooks in household of Thomas Brooks, "United States Census, 1860"
- Hiram Brooks, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Hiram Brooks, "Find A Grave Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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