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
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
1840–1932 Male
1852–1923 Female
Siblings (7)
1875–1948 Male
1876–1906 Male
1879–1906 Female
1881–1937 Male
1885–1958 Male
+2 More Children
World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 2
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
Age 3
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 11
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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