Brief Life History of Clarissa
Clarissa Hoisington was born on 4 October 1832, in Greece, Monroe, New York, United States as the daughter of Elizabeth "Betsy" Davis. She married James Perrine Hughes on 8 April 1855, in Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Orange Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States in 1860 and Michigan, United States in 1870. She died on 21 July 1886, in Danby Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Portland, Ionia, Michigan, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Clarissa Hughes in household of James P Hughes, "United States Census, 1870"
- Clarissa Hysington, "Michigan Civil Marriages, 1834-1974"
- Clarissa Hughes, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
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World Events (8)
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.
1837
In 1837, the first Post Office in Portland was established.
1847 · Moving the State Capital
The capital of Michigan was moved from Detroit to Lansing on March 17, 1847. The capital was moved to be further away from Canada, to encourage settlement and boost economy toward the inner regions of the state, and to make to capital more accessible to everyone statewide.
Name Meaning
Perhaps an altered form of Horsington, an English habitational name, from places so named in Somerset and Lincolnshire. The first is named from Old English hors-thegn ‘horsekeeper, groom’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, while the second is named in Domesday Book as Horsintone ‘farmstead (Old English tūn) associated with (-ing-) a man called Horsa’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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