When Francis Caroline Charity Holbrooks was born on 30 May 1838, in Franklin, Georgia, United States, her father, Green Berry Holbrook, was 33 and her mother, Priscilla Watson, was 34. She married Oliver Jackson Weems on 20 December 1860, in Forsyth, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She lived in Forsyth, Georgia, United States in 1860 and District 686, DeKalb, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died on 7 February 1926, in Greenville, Hunt, Texas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Campbell, Hunt, Texas, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Hunt, Texas, United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
English (Lancashire): variant of Holbrook , with excrescent -s. This surname is now rare in Britain.
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