Brief Life History of Amanda F
When Amanda F Hancock was born on 29 July 1858, in Conecuh, Alabama, United States, her father, Samuel Cicero Hancock, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Amanda Weeks, was 22. She married Christopher Columbus Daniel on 25 December 1879, in Castleberry, Conecuh, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Castleberry, Conecuh, Alabama, United States in 1880 and Ward Three, Sabine, Louisiana, United States in 1900. She died on 16 January 1921, in Georgiana, Butler, Alabama, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Georgiana, Butler, Alabama, United States.
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- Mandy Daniels, "United States Census, 1910"
- Amanda Daniels, "Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930"
- Amanda Hancock, "Alabama County Marriages, 1818-1936"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1874
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Hann + the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to personal names (see Cocke ).
Dutch: from Middle Dutch hanecoc ‘winkle, periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold shellfish.
History: Thomas Hancock, the uncle of Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock (1736/7–93), was among the foremost of 18th-century American businessmen. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Hancock, who was known to have been in Cambridge, MA, as early as 1634. Born in Braintree, MA, John Hancock was president of the Second Continental Congress and the first governor of the state of MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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