Brief Life History of Wilber Fisk
When Wilber Fisk Packard was born on 21 December 1855, in White Sulphur Springs, Hall, Georgia, United States, his father, Erastus W Packard, was 45 and his mother, Lucinda Rush Russell, was 34. He married Sophia Eugenia Aycock on 24 February 1878, in Ellis, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States in 1910 and Martin, Texas, United States in 1917. He died on 13 January 1917, in Houston County, Texas, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Mount Mora Cemetery, Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States.
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- Willie F Packard in household of Erastus Packard, "United States Census, 1870"
- W F Packard, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Wilbur Fisk Packard, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pak(e) ‘pack, bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, probably a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.
English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Packert, Päckert, from ancient Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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