Abraham Zink was born in 1789, in North Carolina, United States. He had at least 5 sons and 1 daughter with Mary Magdalena Nine. He lived in Farmington, Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Farmington Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1860. He died in Oregon, United States.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
German: from Middle High German zinke ‘peak’, acquired either as a topographic name by someone who lived on or near a crag or on a pointed piece of land or as a nickname for a man with a singularly pointed nose. Compare modern German slang Zinken ‘hooter, nose’. The same word was used to denote the cornet, although the semantic development is not clear, and the surname may sometimes have been metonymic for a player of this instrument. It was not until the 16th century that the metal zinc was discovered and named (apparently from its jagged appearance in the furnace), so this is unlikely to be the origin of the surname.
German: from the old personal name Jacinctus, which derives from Hyacinthus, a Christian saint's name (see Jacinto ). Compare Sink .
In some cases also a Germanized or Americanized form of Czech and Slovenian Cink .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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