Elizabeth Buchanan

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Buchanan was born on 3 August 1833, in Bourbon, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, her father, Fielding Buchanan, was 21 and her mother, Eliza Ann Edwards, was 24. She married Alfred A Page on 28 September 1856, in Holt, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. She lived in Grant Township, Richardson, Nebraska, United States for about 5 years and Grant Election Precinct, Dawson, Nebraska, United States in 1900. She died on 4 March 1907, at the age of 73, and was buried in Dawson, Richardson, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alfred A Page
1834–1908
Elizabeth Buchanan
1833–1907
Marriage: 28 September 1856
Mary E Page
1857–1944
Minnie Todd Page
1858–1937
Fielding Porter Page
1859–1950
Julia Moss Page
1861–1947
Elizabeth Hester Page
1862–1938
Sarah Alice Page
1864–1919
Grizell D. Page
1864–1932
Evaline Melinda Page
1868–1942
Emma Page
1871–1891

Sources (19)

  • Lizzie Page in household of Alfred Page, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Elizabeth Buchannan, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Rebecca Buchanan in entry for John Hamilton Wilson and Eliza Hester Page Roberts, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

World Events (8)

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

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854: Richardson, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Richardson, Nebraska, United States

Name Meaning

Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.

Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .

History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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