Brief Life History of Frances A.
When Frances A. Hurlbut was born on 1 March 1837, in Mishawaka, Penn Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States, her father, Harris E. Hurlbut, was 26 and her mother, Melissa C. Curtis, was 26. She married Edwin G McCollum on 23 December 1862, in Mishawaka, Penn Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Penn Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 14 November 1920, in Mishawaka, Penn Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mishawaka City Cemetery, Mishawaka, Penn Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States.
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Sources (10)
- Fannie McCallen, "United States Census, 1920"
- Fannie A Hurlbut, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Frances A Hurlbut McCollum, "Find A Grave Index"
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1841 · Indiana Nears Bankruptcy
The State of Indiana was near bankruptcy in 1841 due to the inability to repay interest incurred for the Massive Internal Improvement Act. The state liquidated much of its public works. Many of the projects were handed over to the state’s creditors as a way to reduce debt. Only two of the eight proposed infrastructure projects were completed by the creditors.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from a medieval game called hurlebatte, which took its name from ‘short battes of a cubit long and a halfe, with pykes of yron, and were tied to a line, that when they were throwne, one might plucke them again’ (1565–73). Compare ‘Pleying at The two hande swerd, at swerd and bokelere, and at two pyked staf, at The hurlebatte’ (about 1450 in MED).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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