Brief Life History of Pleasant Dawson
When Pleasant Dawson Hastain was born on 20 April 1854, in Henry, Missouri, United States, his father, Daniel McComisky Hastain, was 45 and his mother, Martha Jane Wade, was 39. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Lena Hill. He lived in Warsaw, Benton, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Sedalia Township, Pettis, Missouri, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1892. He died on 14 August 1912, in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Sedalia Township, Pettis, Missouri, United States.
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- Pleasant D Mac Hastian in household of Daniel Mac Hastian, "United States Census, 1860"
- Pleasant Dawson Hastain, "Find A Grave Index"
- Pleasant Dawson in entry for Imogene Schoenthal Peters, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Pettis, Missouri, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Norman, English: see Hastings .
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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