When Martha Jane Leatherwood was born about 1841, in Greene, Alabama, United States, her father, James W. Leatherwood, was 39 and her mother, Mary Jane Hamilton, was 33. She married Robert T. Coleman on 11 August 1859, in Greene, Alabama, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English: perhaps an altered form of Leatherhead, a habitational name from Leatherhead (Surrey), which probably derives from Old English lēode ‘folk, people’ + ride ‘riding, place suitable for riding, bridle path’, or alternatively a habitational name from Lythwood in Shropshire, which is named from Old English hlith ‘slope’ + wudu ‘wood’.
History: Zachariah Leatherwood, a son of John Leatherwood, was born in Prince William County, VA c. 1735. After the revolutionary war, he settled in Spartanburg County, SC with his second wife, Jane Calvert, and many of his fourteen children.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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