When Hyrum Smith Workman was born on 12 July 1839, in Monroe, Overton, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Workman, was 49 and his mother, Lydia Bilyeu, was 45. He married Emily Rowland Herbert on 17 January 1864, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He registered for military service in 1857. He died on 9 September 1911, in Wellington, Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Wellington City Cemetery, Wellington, Carbon, Utah, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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