Brief Life History of Susannah
When Susannah Hess was born on 14 April 1855, in Mountain, Ritchie, Virginia, United States, her father, Frederick Hess II, was 41 and her mother, Susannah Knouss, was 38. She married Robert Franklin Nair on 3 December 1872, in Oakland, Garrett, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1855 and Central District, Rockingham, Virginia, United States in 1870. She died on 23 April 1892, in Broadway, Rockingham, Virginia, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Linville Creek Church Of The Brethren Cemetery, Broadway, Rockingham, Virginia, United States.
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- Susanna Hope in household of Frederick Hope, "United States Census, 1870"
- Hannah Nair, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- Susannah, "Virginia, Rockingham County, Marriage Registers, 1864-1926"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
German, Dutch, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from the territory of Hesse (see Hessen 1).
South German: from a short form of the personal name Matthäus (see Matthew ).
German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hesso, a derivative of a compound name formed with hadu ‘strife’ as the first element, or from a pet form of Herman or Hendrik (see Henry 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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