Brief Life History of Garland Thomas
When Garland Thomas Jones was born on 29 May 1842, in Howard, Missouri, United States, his father, Mosias Cyrus Jones, was 24 and his mother, Mary Jane Thompson, was 17. He married Judith A. Sanders in 1860, in Medicine Township, Mercer, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 31 December 1906, in Medford, Jackson, Oregon, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Medford, Jackson, Oregon, United States.
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- Garland Jones, "United States Census, 1870"
- Oregon Wills and Probate Records, 1849-1963 - Re: Birth of Garland T. JONES
- FHL 1000362, Item 1 - "Portrait and Biographical Record of Western Oregon - Re: Marriage of Garland T. JONES and Judith A. SANDERS
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1859 · Oregon Becomes a State
Oregon became the 33rd state admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.
1862 · The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1862 gave each citizen 160 acres of land. The qualified applicants were required to build a home and cultivate the land for five years.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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