Brief Life History of Asenath
When Asenath Duncan was born on 10 February 1842, in Hendricks, Indiana, United States, her father, Charles P Duncan, was 31 and her mother, Delilah Blunk, was 21. She married Young C. Hammond in December 1858, in Morgan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States for about 15 years and Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 February 1920, in Adams, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Harrisonville, Van Buren, Missouri, United States.
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- Aseneth Hammond, "Nebraska State Census, 1885"
- Asenith M Duncan, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Asenath Marilla Duncan Hammond, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Gage, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Gage, Nebraska, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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