Susannah Harris

Brief Life History of Susannah

When Susannah Harris was born on 14 February 1840, in Bertrand, Niles Township, Berrien, Michigan, United States, her father, John Harris, was 31 and her mother, Lovina Eiler, was 32. She married Clark Sirenus Fabun on 26 August 1856, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in California, United States in 1870 and Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1900. She died on 31 May 1917, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Clark Sirenus Fabun
1816–1880
Susannah Harris
1840–1917
Marriage: 26 August 1856
Cyrenous Clark Fabun
1857–1906
Susanna Delphina "Della" Fabun
1859–1949
Gideon Smith " George" Fabun
1862–1879
Amasa Russell " Russ" Fabun
1865–1945
George Washington Fabun
1869–1909
Elsie Lovina Fabun
1872–1954
John Harris Fabun
1874–1904
Daniel Eiler Fabun
1878–1951

Sources (27)

  • Susan Fabun in household of Abner Blackburn, "United States Census, 1880"
  • S Fabun, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Susanah F Teeter, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1848 · The California Gold Rush

On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars. 

1863

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

Name Meaning

English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).

Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.

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

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BIOGRAPHY OF SUSANNAH HARRIS FABUN TEETER

Susannah Harris was born on 14 February 1840 in Bertrant, Berrien, Michigan to John and Lovina Eiler Harris. She was the third of ten children, four girls and six boys. Her father John was born o …

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