Brief Life History of Jerusha
When Jerusha Campbell was born on 22 February 1831, in Catlin, Chemung, New York, United States, her father, Joel Campbell, was 35 and her mother, Mercy Miranda Hill, was 23. She married Franklin Green Wriston or Clifford on 10 May 1849, in Holt, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 3 July 1850, in Holt, Clay, Missouri, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Holt, Clay, Missouri, United States.
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- Jarusha Campbell, "Missouri, Marriages, 1750-1920"
- Obituary/Funeral program or Book/Newspaper article
- Jerusha Campbell in entry for Franklin G Wriston, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
1835
Historical Boundaries: 1835: Clay, Missouri, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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