Brief Life History of California B.
When California B. Land was born in October 1847, in Indiana, United States, her father, James Land Sr, was 55 and her mother, Permelia Helms, was 38. She married Jacob S Woodward on 24 April 1867, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Jefferson Township, Sullivan, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Linton Circuit, Stockton Township, Greene, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 23 December 1904, in Linton, Stockton Township, Greene, Indiana, United States, at the age of 57.
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- Calfemice B Woodward in household of Jacob Woodward, "United States Census, 1900"
- Calfernia B Land, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Calphnenia Land in entry for Osa Woodward and Cecile Leona Maynard, "Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1854
Historical Boundaries 1854: Sullivan, Indiana, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, German, and Dutch: topographic name from Old English, Middle Dutch land, Middle High German lant ‘land, territory’. This had more specialized senses in the Middle Ages, being used to denote the countryside as opposed to a town or an estate.
English: topographic name from Middle English launde ‘glade’ (Old French land), or a habitational name from a place called with this word, such as Launde in Leicestershire or Laund in Yorkshire.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of the three farmsteads so named, from Old Norse land ‘land, territory’ (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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