When Oliver Jacob Francis was born in 1835, in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, his father, Miles Sanford Francis, was 24 and his mother, Barbara Miller, was 25. He married Savannah Jane Crader on 28 May 1857, in Marble Hill, Bollinger, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Howell Township, Howell, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 29 December 1901, in Cull, Howell, Missouri, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Cull, Howell, Missouri, United States.
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The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
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.
Historical Boundaries 1857: Howell County created from Oregon County
English: from the Old French personal name Franceis, modern French François, from Latin Franciscus, originally ‘Frank’, though later used to denote a Frenchman. The personal name owed much of its popularity during the Middle Ages to the fame of Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), whose baptismal name was actually Giovanni but who was nicknamed Francisco because his father was absent in France at the time of his birth. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Francesco and Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Franc , and also their derivatives, e.g. Croatian Francišković (see Francisco 4).
English: ethnic name from the Old French adjective Franceis ‘French’ (see 1 above).
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, or an adoption of the non-Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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