Brief Life History of Asa
When Asa Converse was born on 9 January 1814, in Bridport, Addison, Vermont, United States, his father, Lyman Squire Converse, was 31 and his mother, Anna Rand, was 29. He married Thankful McCloud on 5 November 1835. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Plain City, Madison, Ohio, United States in 1880. He died on 30 April 1898, in Marysville, Union, Ohio, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Forest Grove Cemetery, Plain City, Madison, Ohio, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (7)
- Acy Converse, "United States Census, 1860"
- Asa Converse, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"
- Asa Converse in entry for Candace Ann Marelock, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
Spouse and Children
1814–1898 Male
1814–1887 Female
Children (6)
1836–1837 Male
1839–1920 Female
1841–1908 Male
1845–1916 Female
1848–1852 Male
+1 More Child
Parents and Siblings
1782–1823 Male
1784–1830 Female
Siblings (8)
1810–1859 Male
1811–1851 Male
1814–1898 Male
1815–1877 Male
1817–1865 Female
+3 More Children
World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 5
1834 · Vermont Anti-Slavery Society is Formed
Age 20
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 22
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Old French convers literally ‘converted’, used to denote someone converted from secular to religious life in adult age, or, earlier, a lay member of a convent. The Cistercian and Augustinian conversi were men living according to a rule less strict than that of the monks or canons, engaged chiefly in manual work, with their own living quarters and their own part of the church. They were numerous among the Cistercians in the 12th and 13th centuries, often outnumbering the monks and were, by rule, illiterate. These lay brothers were employed on the monastic manors and granges, where they were liable to fall into the sin of owning private property. They acquired a reputation for violence and misbehaviour (at Neath, in 1269, they locked the abbot in his bedroom and stole his horses) and they were gradually replaced by more manageable paid servants.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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