When Nancy Ann Layman was born on 27 June 1854, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Layman, was 30 and her mother, Virena Thurman, was 27. She married Calvin E Shrader on 12 June 1875, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Fair Garden, Sevier, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 1, Collin, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 17 March 1909, in Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
English: topographic name for a dweller by a woodland clearing or a meadow, from Middle English ley + man. Compare Lee .
English: nickname from layman, a word denoting an uneducated person.
Americanized form of German Lehmann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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