Brief Life History of Mary Vashti
When Mary Vashti Brown was born about 1835, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Hugh Alexander Brown, was 39 and her mother, Gracey Ann King, was 29. She married Beedie Andrew Goleman about 1855. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Pike, Mississippi, United States in 1850 and Justice Precinct 3, Rockwall, Texas, United States in 1880. She died on 15 May 1895, in Rockwall, Rockwall, Texas, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Royse City Cemetery, Royse City, Rockwall, Texas, United States.
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- Vashti Brown in household of Hugh Brown, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Vashti Brown - Government record: birth-name: Vashti Brown
- Vasti Brown Goleman, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1849
Historical Boundaries 1849: Kaufman, Texas, United States 1873: Rockwall, Texas, United States
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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