Private William Jason Andrew Jackson Hilliard was born on 14 January 1841, in Naftel, Montgomery, Alabama, United States. He married Nancy Lucinda Knight on 4 April 1869, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 9 January 1898, in his hometown, at the age of 56, and was buried in Fair Prospect Cemetery, Naftel, Montgomery, Alabama, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (southeastern England and Midlands):
variant of Hillier , with excrescent -d. Compare Hillard , Heller , and Hellard .
of Norman origin, from the Middle English female personal name Hildiard, Holdiard, Anglo-Norman French forms of ancient Germanic Hildigard, Hildiardis, from hild ‘battle’ + gard ‘protective enclosure, yard’. Either this or the name above was brought to Ireland from Yorkshire in the 17th century.
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