Brief Life History of Thomas White
When Thomas White Rowland was born on 23 January 1835, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Thomas Rowland, was 49 and his mother, Eleanor H. Burleson, was 46. He married Elizabeth Tabitha Mohundro on 9 August 1856, in Tippah, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Sand Hill, Rankin, Mississippi, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 1, Jones, Texas, United States in 1900. He died on 20 June 1908, in Anson, Jones, Texas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Funston, Jones, Texas, United States.
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- L W Rowland, "United States Census, 1870"
- Thomas White Rowland, "Find A Grave Index"
- T. W. Rowland in entry for Emily Jane Rowland Roberds, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Jones, Texas, United States
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Rollant, Rolant, Rolent, Roulent (ancient Germanic Hrodland, Rodland, from hrōd ‘glory’ + land ‘land’), introduced into England by the Normans. It was made famous by French romances about Roland, the most famous of the peers of Charlemagne who was killed at Roncesvalles in AD 778. Although widely used across post-Conquest England (along with Oliver, the name of Roland's companion), it seems to have been restricted to particular gentry families and was never popular. Compare Roland .
English: habitational name from Rowland (Derbyshire) or Rowland Wood in Slinfold (Sussex). The Derbyshire placename derives from Old Norse rá ‘roe, roe buck’ or rá ‘land mark, boundary’ + lúndr ‘small wood, grove’. The Sussex placename probably derives from Middle English roughe ‘rough’ + lond ‘land’ (Old English rūh, land).
English: in northern England and perhaps elsewhere, perhaps a post-medieval variant of Rawling . Compare Rawlinson , Rollinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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