Henry Theodore Simon

Brief Life History of Henry Theodore

When Henry Theodore Simon was born in 1829, in Maryland, United States, his father, Charles Simon, was 43 and his mother, Johanne Magadelena Henz, was 28. He married Lucy Rose Hall on 13 June 1853, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 17 April 1903, at the age of 74, and was buried in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Theodore Simon
1829–1903
Lucy Rose Hall
1832–1915
Marriage: 13 June 1853
Elizabeth Hall Simon
about 1853–1947
Henry Harrison Simon
about 1854–
Mary Rose Simon
1859–1944
Leslie A. Simon
about 1864–
Charles Fitzhugh Simon
1861–1926
Lucia "Lucy" Hall Simon
1873–1970

Sources (13)

  • Henry Simons in household of Frances Audrain, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Henry T. Simon - Church record: birth-name: Henry T. Simon
  • Henry Simon, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1830 · The Oregon Trail

Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire), French, Walloon, Breton, German, Dutch, Hungarian, northern Italian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic); Spanish (Simón); Czech and Slovak (mainly Šimon); Slovenian, Croatian, and Rusyn (from Slovakia) (also Šimon): from the Biblical personal name, Hebrew Shim‘on, which is probably derived from the Hebrew verb sham‘a ‘to hearken’. In the Vulgate and in many vernacular versions of the Old Testament, this is usually rendered Simeon . In the Greek New Testament, however, the name occurs as Simōn, as a result of assimilation to the pre-existing Greek byname Sīmōn (from sīmos ‘snub-nosed’). Both Simon and Simeon were in use as personal names in western Europe from the Middle Ages onward. In Christendom the former was always more popular, at least in part because of its associations with the apostle Simon Peter, the brother of Andrew. In Britain there was also confusion from an early date with Anglo-Scandinavian forms of Sigmund(r) or Sigmund (see Siegmund ), a name whose popularity was reinforced at the Conquest by the Norman form Simund. In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Simone , Polish Szymon, Albanian Simoni , and Assyrian/Chaldean or Arabic Shimun, Shamon , or Shamoun , and also their derivatives (see examples at Simons ). See also Shimon .

History: André Simon dit Boucher from France married Marie Martin in Acadia c. 1688. François Simon from Saint-Pair-sur-Mer in Manche, France, married Marie-Dorothée Gagnon in Rivière-Ouelle, QC, in 1744.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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