Brief Life History of Margaret
Margaret Evitt was born in 1820, in Tennessee, United States as the daughter of John Evitt and Mary “Polly” Mitchell. She married Andrew Jackson Longley about 1840, in Tennessee, Shelby, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Union Township, Jefferson, Kansas, United States in 1880. She died on 29 November 1924, in Texas, United States, at the age of 104.
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- Margaret Longley, "United States Census, 1860"
- Evert in entry for E M Longley, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
- Martha Langley in household of A J Langley, "United States Census, 1850"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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.
1850 · Compromise of 1850
The United States Congress passed a package of five separate bills in an attempt to decrease tensions between the slave states and free states. The compromise itself was received gratefully, but both sides disapproved of certain components contained in the laws. Texas was impacted in several ways; mainly, the state surrendered its claim to New Mexico (and other claims north of 36°30′) but retained the Texas Panhandle. The federal government also took over the public debt for Texas.
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English: variant of Evatt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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