Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Bird was born on 19 September 1803, in Flanders, Mount Olive Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States, his father, Benjamin Freeman Bird, was 24 and his mother, Maribah Reeves, was 19. He married Mary Ann Kennedy on 22 March 1826, in Covington, Putnam Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He registered for military service in 1851. He died on 29 September 1884, in Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mendon City Cemetery, Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Chas Bird, "United States Census, 1860"
- Marriages of Morris Co., New Jersey, Benjamin Freeman Bird/Milly Reeve
- John Bird, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
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1804
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had been political enemies with intense personal differences for quite some time. Burr accused Hamilton of publicly disparaging his character during the elections of 1800 and 1804. On the morning of July 11, the two politicians went to Weehawken, New Jersey to resolve the disputes with an official duel. Both men were armed with a pistol. Hamilton missed, but Burr's shot fatally wounded Hamilton, who would die by the following day. The duel custom had been outlawed in New York by 1804, resulting in Burr fleeing the state due to an arrest warrant. He would later be accused of treason, but ultimately be acquitted.
1822
Post office est. July 26, 1822
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Kelsey Bird was born January 11, 1837 at Hector, Tompkin Co., New York, to Charles and Mary Ann Kennedy. Kelsey was born just a few months after his parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latte …
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