When John Fletcher Dorsey was born on 31 October 1841, in Hall, Georgia, United States, his father, John Dorsey, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth McMillan Brice, was 36. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Mary Isabella Brown. He lived in District 575, Hall, Georgia, United States in 1880. He died on 18 August 1899, in Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, United States.
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Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical boundaries: 1858: Young Territory, Texas, United States 1858: Wilbarger, Texas, United States
English (East Yorkshire): of French origin, a habitational name, with French preposition d(e), from Orsay in Seine-et-Orne, France, or from Orçay in Loire-et-Cher, recorded in the 13th century as Orceiacum, from the Latin personal name Orcius + the locative suffix -acum.
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