Herbert Hannibal

Brief Life History of Herbert

Herbert Hannibal was born in July 1872, in Illinois, United States. He married Caroline Gudgel on 28 January 1896, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Gum Pond Township, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Athens Precinct, Menard, Illinois, United States for about 1 years. He died in 1958, in Athens, Menard, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Joel Hall Cemetery, Athens, Menard, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Herbert Hannibal
1872–1958
Caroline Gudgel
1876–1945
Marriage: 28 January 1896
Emery O Hannibal
1896–1972
Pearl L Hannibal
1898–1900
William Hannibal
1901–1920
Arthur Hannibal
1910–1934
Raymond Judson Hannibal
1916–1987

Sources (11)

  • Herbert Hannibal, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Herbert Hannibal, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Herbert Hannibal in entry for Arthur Hannibal, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1877 · The First Workers Strike

The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

German: from a post-humanist personal name, Hannibal (see 2 below).

English: post-medieval variant of Annable , from Middle English Amabil, Annabel. This female personal name fell out of fashion in the late Middle Ages, and the source of the surname was no longer recognized. It was re-interpreted in the 16th century by classically educated gentlemen as being the name of the Carthaginian general, Hannibal (247–182 BC ). The surname was also sometimes later re-etymologized as honey + ball or bell, hence spellings such as Honeyball and Hunnibell. In this new guise, it coincided with an established variant of Annable with initial H-.

History: There is no evidence for the use of Hannibal as a personal name in England before 1619, when Hannibal Gammon was rector of Mawgan in Pyder, Cornwall. As a medieval surname, it was borne by Matthew Hanibal (1255) and Peter Haniballus, both described as ‘civis Romanus’, and obviously Italians, but it is unlikely that either of these Italian merchants or moneylenders founded an English family.

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

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