When Annie Mathilda Poland was born on 16 July 1847, in Alabama, United States, her father, Henry Poland, was 32 and her mother, Margaret L. Moore, was 25. She married Charles Washington Jordan on 14 November 1867. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Claiborne, Louisiana, United States in 1880 and Ward One, Claiborne, Louisiana, United States in 1900. She died on 29 October 1904, in Shongaloo, Webster, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Walkerville, Columbia, Arkansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1852: Columbia, Arkansas, United States
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from a place in Hampshire called Poland, which probably derives from Old English Pōling or Pulling ‘pool place’. Alternatively, it may be a variant of any of the similar (like-sounding) English surnames, such as Pulham and Pullen , altered by folk etymology to conform to the name of the country in central Europe.
Irish (County Offaly, also Armagh and Down): variant of Polin . Compare Polan .
German: ethnic name from Middle High German Polan ‘Poland’ + excrescent -d, denoting an ethnic Pole or someone with Polish connections.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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