When Lucinda Elizabeth Whitman was born on 3 March 1851, in Missouri, United States, her father, John Calhoun Whitman, was 25 and her mother, Marcella P. Lacy, was 22. She married Rufus Wilson Hoover on 25 March 1870, in Burnet, Burnet, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 1, Burnet, Texas, United States for about 30 years and Burnet, Burnet, Texas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 December 1921, in Austin, Travis, Texas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Burnet, Burnet, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1852: Burnet, Texas, United States
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Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
English (southern): from the Middle English personal name Whytman (Old English Hwītmann, from hwīt ‘white’ + mann ‘man’). Compare White 1 and also Wightman , with which this surname was probably confused.
History: John Whitman settled in Weymouth, MA, c. 1638. The poet Walt Whitman (1819–92) was descended from Joseph Whitman, who had settled in Stratford, CT, from England around 1660.
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