Brief Life History of Samuel Alexander
When Samuel Alexander Pattillo was born on 7 May 1838, in Bluff, Fayette, Texas, United States, his father, George Alexander Pattillo, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Ann Allen, was 37. He lived in Jefferson City, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Orange, Texas, United States in 1860. He died on 30 November 1864, at the age of 26.
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- Samuel A Pattillo in household of Daniel A Pattillo, "United States Census, 1860"
- Samuel A Pattillo in household of George A Pattillo, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (5)
1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1852
Historical Boundaries: 1852: Orange, Texas, United States
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from either of two places, in the former counties of Fife and Perthshire, called Pittilloch, from Pictish peit ‘portion (of land)’ + Gaelic tulach ‘hill’ and with loss of final -ch in the modern forms of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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