When William Adams Hickman was born on 16 April 1815, in Booneville, Owsley, Kentucky, United States, his father, Edwin Temple Hickman, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Adams, was 21. He married Bernetta A Walters Burckhardt on 12 April 1832, in Randolph, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 10 daughters. He immigrated to Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States in 1849 and lived in Fairfield, Utah, Utah, United States in 1870 and Laramie, Albany, Wyoming, United States in 1880. He died on 21 August 1883, in Lander, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Lander, Fremont, Wyoming, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English (Staffordshire): from the Middle English personal names Hikeman, Hicheman, and (in the West Midlands) Hikemon and Hichemon, pet forms of Hike and Hiche with the hypocoristic suffix -man or -mon. See Hick and Hitch . In some instances, however, Hikeman and Hicheman might be occupational names denoting a ‘servant of Hike or Hiche’. This surname has long been established in Ireland, notably in County Clare.
Americanized form of German Hickmann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Namesby Warren Edwin Hickman, a grandson, as told to his daughter, Leona Hickman Peck. These are memories of Warren Edwin Hickman of his grandfather, Edwin Temple Hickman. Easom's family was quite close …
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