Brief Life History of Sarah Ann "Sally"
When Sarah Ann "Sally" Hawk was born on 1 May 1834, in Newport Center, Newport Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Hawk, was 31 and her mother, Frances Fanny Anna Dotter, was 27. She married Henry Christian Hirner in 1850, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Newport, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. She died on 11 November 1877, in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Sarah Hirner, "United States Census, 1860"
- Sarah Ann Hawke Hirner, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sarah Ann in entry for Joh. Wilhelm Hirner and Christiane F. Frauke, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English havoc, havek, hauk ‘hawk or falcon’ (Old English hafoc). It may have been given to a professional falconer, to someone of a savage or cruel disposition, or to someone who held land by providing hawks for his lord, as in an instance from 1130, where Ralph Hauoc owed the royal Exchequer two ‘girfals’ (i.e. gyrfalcons or hawks).
English: topographic name for a ‘(dweller in) the nook or corner’, from Middle English halke (derived from Old English halh + the diminutive suffix -oc).
English: possibly also a survival into Middle English of the Old English personal name Hafoc, which was originally a nickname from the word ‘hawk, falcon’. It seems to have died out of use as a personal name by c. 1250.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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