Lucy Krebs

Brief Life History of Lucy

When Lucy Krebs was born on 15 May 1826, in Winston, Mississippi, United States, her father, Etienne Stephen Krebs Sr., was 39 and her mother, Margaret " Peggy” Fillecutcha, was 23. She married Benjamin Hutson Lowery on 22 December 1842, in Winston, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 21 April 1892, in Choctaw Nation Reservation, Pushmataha, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Sans Bois Cemetery, Haskell, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

Benjamin Hutson Lowery
1823–1887
Lucy Krebs
1826–1892
Marriage: 22 December 1842
Thomas M Lowery Sr.
1844–1911
Mary Jane Lowery
1847–1886
William James Lowery
1849–1899
Susan Lowery
1856–1886
George L. Lowery
1858–1930
Catherine Minerva Lowrey
1861–1918

Sources (5)

  • Lucy Lowrey in household of Benjamin Lowrey, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Lucy Krebs, "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911"
  • Lucy Murphy, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1830

Historical Boundaries: 1830: Indian Territory, United States 1907: Pushmataha, Oklahoma, United States

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Gerhard, Arno, Bernd, Dieter, Erwin, Franz, Fritz, Heinz, Helmut, Irmgard.

German and Swiss German: metonymic occupational name for a catcher or seller of crabs or crayfish or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a crab, perhaps because they had a peculiar gait. The name was certainly standardized from older variants like Krevetes or Krebiss which reflect Middle Low German crevet ‘crab, shrimp’, as well as Middle High German krebez. This surname is also found in e.g. Slovenia, Czechia, and Poland, often as a translation into German of the Slavic surname Rak ‘crayfish’, and in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Crabbs , Crapps , Crepps , Creps , and Krebbs .

Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Krebs ‘crab’ (see 1 above).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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