When Laura C. Hack was born on 25 August 1861, in Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Andrew Hack, was 32 and her mother, Polly Ann Hudnall, was 25. She married Hezekiah Britton Applegate on 16 June 1876, in Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Nebo, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Township of Spring Creek, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 27 September 1920, in Pike, Illinois, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Nebo, Pike, Illinois, United States.
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German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hac(c)o, a short form of a compound name beginning with the element hag ‘hedge, enclosure’.
German and Dutch: occupational name for a butcher or a woodcutter (see Hacker ).
North German: occupational name for a peddler (see Haack 3).
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