When William Joseph Henry was born on 26 December 1811, in South Carolina, United States, his father, William Henry, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Drusilla Pickens, was 32. He had at least 7 sons and 4 daughters with Sarah Stafford Hoge. He lived in Summerville, Chattooga, Georgia, United States in 1860 and Columbia, Columbia, Florida, United States in 1870. He died on 11 January 1873, in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Historical Boundaries: 1821: Spanish East Florida, Florida Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1821: St. Johns, Florida Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1822: St. Johns, Florida Territory, United States 1822: Duval, Florida Territory, United States 1824: Alachua, Florida Territory, United States 1832: Columbia, Florida Territory, United States 1845: Columbia, Florida, United States
In 1829 Fort Sumter is constructed in the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Fort Sumter is most known for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War. It is barely ready when the American Civil War starts.
English, French, Walloon, and West Indian (mainly Jamaica and Haiti): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements haim, heim ‘home’ + rīc ‘power, ruler’, introduced to England by the Normans in the form Henri. During the Middle Ages this name became enormously popular in England and was borne by eight kings. Continental forms of the personal name were equally popular throughout Europe. In the period in which the majority of English surnames were formed, a common English vernacular form of the name was Harry, hence the surnames Harris (southern) and Harrison (northern). Official documents of the period normally used the Latinized form Henricus. In medieval times, English Henry absorbed an originally distinct Old English personal name that had hagan ‘hawthorn’ (compare Hain 2) as its first element, and there has also been confusion with Amery. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. German Heinrich , and also their derivatives, e.g. Swedish Henriksson (see Henrikson ). Compare Henri .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hInnéirghe ‘descendant of Innéirghe’, a byname based on éirghe ‘arising’.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Éinrí or Mac Einri, patronymics from the personal names Éinrí, Einri, Irish forms of Henry. It is also found as a variant of McEnery .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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