When Eliza Jane Brooks was born on 27 December 1820, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States, her father, David Brooks, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth DeShazo, was 20. She married William Anderson Baker on 1 December 1844, in Crawford, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Mountain Township, Scott, Arkansas, United States in 1850 and Dallas, Polk, Arkansas, United States in 1860. She died on 27 February 1897, in Rudy, Crawford, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Alma, Crawford, Arkansas, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Historical Boundaries - 1830: Crawford, Arkansas Territory, United States; 1836: Crawford, Arkansas, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1845: Polk, Arkansas, United States
English: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
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