When Elizabeth Jane Helm was born on 3 September 1836, in Greenton, Lafayette, Missouri, United States, her father, Allen Lyna Helm, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth McClure, was 25. She married William Jasper Barker on 16 September 1852, in Lafayette, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Judicial Township 4, Merced, California, United States in 1900 and Fresno, Fresno, California, United States in 1920. She died on 11 November 1920, in Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Le Grand, Merced, California, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Merced, California, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (Lancashire): from Old English helm ‘protection, covering’ (in later northern English dialects, ‘cattle shelter, barn’). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by or worked at a barn, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Helme in Meltham (Yorkshire).
English: variant of Elm with prosthetic H-.
German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of helmets, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch helm.
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