Amanda Harper
1834–Female
DeKalb, Tennessee, United States
The Life of Amanda
When Amanda Harper was born in 1834, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, her father, James H Harper, was 24 and her mother, Esther Easter Patterson, was 21.
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Family Time Line
James H Harper
1810–1883
Esther Easter Patterson
1813–1891
Mathew Harper
1831–1907
Abner L. Harper
1831–
James Harper
1842–
Amanda Harper
1834–
Laura Harper
1841–
Parents and Siblings
1810–1883Male
1813–1891Female
siblings
(5)
1831–1907Male
1831–Male
1834–Female
1841–Female
1842–Male
World Events (3)
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
Age 1
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 2
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.
1846
Age 12
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a player on the harp, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle Dutch harp ‘harp’. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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