When Susannah Garner was born about 1774, in United States, her father, James Garner, was 27 and her mother, Lucinda Ann Webb, was 25. She married Robert Hester on 11 January 1802, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 27 November 1858, in Christian, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Flat Lick, Knox, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1774: Fincastle, Virginia Colony 1776: Kentucky, Virginia, United States 1780: Lincoln, Virginia, United States 1792: Lincoln, Kentucky, United States 1800: Knox, Kentucky, United States
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state. It was the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains
In 1796, the Wilderness Road opened up for wagon use. The route was used by colonial and early settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. It started in Virginia, and went southward to Tennessee and then went north to Kentucky. The main danger of this route was Native American attacks.
English (of Norman origin): perhaps occasionally from the Old French personal name Garnier (see Garnier ), but it is exeptionally rare as a personal name in medieval England and no certain evidence has been found for its use as a surname. Compare Warner .
English: from Middle English gern(i)er, garner, gurner, Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It was probably a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary.
English and Scottish: commonly shortened form of Gardner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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