When Susannah Zerfass was born on 17 September 1783, in Whitehall, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Captain Johann Adam Zerfass, was 41 and her mother, Maria Elizabeth Shafer, was 37. She married Peter Fullmer on 2 March 1802, in Schuylkill Township, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 11 November 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Historical Boundaries 1788: Alleghany, Pennsylavia, United States
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
German: from a vernacular form of the medieval personal name Servatius , a Christian saint's name. Compare Serfass and Zerfoss .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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