Brief Life History of Oresta Gertrude
When Oresta Gertrude Poole was born on 8 January 1835, in Ohio, United States, her father, Zenas Pool, was 38 and her mother, Anna Wentworth, was 27. She married William B. Hazeltine on 1 May 1856, in Lowell, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States in 1870 and Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States in 1880. She died on 11 November 1928, in Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 93.
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- Lorieta Hazeltine in household of William B Hazeltine, "United States Census, 1870"
- Orista Pool, "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930"
- Cool in entry for Loren L. Ketchum and Harriet Elizabeth Hazeltine, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
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1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1836
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin - Sept 3, 1836 Treaty Treaty of the Cedars was concluded on the Fox River on September 3, 1836. The Menominee Nation ceded nearly 4 million acres of land for the following items every year for twenty years: $3,000 worth of food provisions, 2,000 lbs. of tobacco, 30 barrels of salt, agricultural supplies, and $500 per year. (Wisconsin Historical Society)
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pol(e), polle, poul(e) ‘pool, pond’ (Old English pōl). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by a pool, or habitative, from a place so named.
English: variant of Paul .
Possibly an Americanized form of German Puhl or Pfuhl(e) (see Pool 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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