Bessie Hall Pike

Female13 June 1879–31 October 1906

Brief Life History of Bessie Hall

When Bessie Hall Pike was born on 13 June 1879, in Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Reverend John Martin Pike, was 39 and her mother, Mary Seaman, was 26. She lived in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States in 1900 and Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States in 1900. She died on 31 October 1906, at the age of 27, and was buried in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Reverend John Martin Pike
1840–1932
Mary Seaman
1852–1923
Gilbert George Pike
1875–1948
Lieut. Rowland Seaman Pike
1876–1906
Bessie Hall Pike
1879–1906
Doctor John Arthur Stanley Pike
1881–1937
Edwin Weber Pike
1885–1958
Frances A Pike
1889–1965
Walter Porter Pike
1892–1983

Sources (4)

  • Bessie Pike in household of John M Pike, "Canada Census, 1881"
  • Bessie Hall Pike, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Bessie H Pike in household of John M Pike, "United States Census, 1900"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (7)

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World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Age 2

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

Age 3

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

Age 11

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

English: nickname, perhaps for a fisherman whose physique resembled that of a pike. One Londoner so named in 1292 was a fishmonger.

English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool, perhaps a laborer or military pikeman, from Middle English pike ‘pike, pickaxe, pitchfork’. Compare Pick .

English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pic (Old English Pica, Old Norse Pík), of uncertain origin but perhaps from one of the words mentioned above.

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

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