Brief Life History of Hannah Bolinda
When Hannah Bolinda Thomas was born on 5 December 1849, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, Alonzo Aranthus Thomas, was 37 and her mother, Melissa Ann Goddard, was 32. She married James Harris Lovejoy on 31 October 1869, in Winneshiek, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Lawler, Chickasaw, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Napa, Napa, California, United States for about 20 years. She died on 1 February 1929, in Napa, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Napa, Napa, California, United States.
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- Hannah B Lovejoy, "United States Census, 1920"
- Hannah B. Thomas, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Hannah B Lovejoy, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Napa, California, United States
1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1870 · P.T. Barnum's Circus Established in Wisconsin
P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome was established in Delavan, Wisconsin in 1870.
Name Meaning
English, French, Walloon, Breton, German, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Greek, West Indian (mainly Haiti and Jamaica), and African (mainly Tanzania and Nigeria): from the personal name Thomas, of Biblical (New Testament) origin, from Aramaic t’ōm’a, a byname meaning ‘twin’. It was borne by one of the disciples of Christ, known for his scepticism about Christ's resurrection (John 20:24–29). The Th- spelling is organic, the initial letter of the name in the Greek New Testament being a theta. The English pronunciation as t rather than th- is the result of French influence from an early date. In Britain, the surname is widely distributed throughout the country, but especially common in Wales and Cornwall. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages (e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean or Arabic Toma and Tuma , Albanian Toma and Thoma , and Slavic surnames listed in 3 below), and their patronymics and other derivatives (e.g. Polish Tomaszewski and Slovenian Tomažič; see Tomazic ). In France, this surname is most common in the Vosges and Brittany. The name Thomas is also found among Christians in southern India (compare Machan , Mammen , and Oommen ), but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Native American (e.g. Navajo): adoption of the English personal name Thomas (see 1 above) as a surname.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish Tomas , Tomasz, and Tomaś, Sorbian Tomaš (see also 4 below), Croatian Tomaš and Tomas , Slovenian Tomaš and Tomaž, Czech and Slovak Tomáš, all meaning ‘Thomas’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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