Brief Life History of Augusta
When Augusta Linde was born on 25 December 1837, in Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, Germany, her father, Carl Linde, was 26 and her mother, Caroline Zimmerman, was 35. She married Ferdinand Hartzfield in 1863, in Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Collyer Township, Trego, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Collyer, Trego, Kansas, United States in 1910. She died on 29 September 1917, in Voda, Trego, Kansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Collyer, Trego, Kansas, United States.
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- Augusta Heryfield in household of A Heryfield, "United States Census, 1880"
- Augusta Linde Hartzfield, "Find A Grave Index"
- Augusta Hartzfield in household of Ferdinand Hartzfield, "Kansas State Census, 1895"
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World Events (8)
1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Gunner, Lars. German Kurt, Dieter, Erna, Fritz, Hasso, Markus, Otto, Ralf.
German, Dutch, and Scandinavian: topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous lime tree, Middle High German, Dutch linde, Scandinavian lind. There are several places, especially in northern Germany, named with this word, and the name may be a habitational name from any of these. The word was also used in a number of Old High German women's personal names, with the meaning ‘shield’ or ‘spear’ (these being made from the hard wood of the lime); it is possible that the surname in some cases is from a short form of one of these. As a Swedish name it is often ornamental rather than topographic. Compare Lindy .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): adoption of German Linde ‘lime tree’ (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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