Brief Life History of George Nelson
When George Nelson Israel was born on 8 December 1819, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, Solomon Wood Israel, was 45 and his mother, Nancy Alloway Strange, was 40. He married Indiana Lance on 25 January 1842, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and Bosque, Texas, United States in 1880. He died in 1890, in Pecos, Reeves, Texas, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Nelson Israel, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nelson Israel in entry for Evelyn Penina Keys, "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1940"
- Nielson Israel, "United States Census, 1850"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hyman, Faina, Shimon, Avi, Ehud, Elihu, Gerson, Isadore, Merav, Meyer.
Jewish, German, Welsh, English, Haitian, and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the Hebrew personal name Yisra’el, in German and English Israel ‘Fighter of God’. In the Bible this is a byname bestowed on Jacob after he had wrestled with the angel at the ford of Jabbok (Genesis 32:24–8). In Germany, it was used as a personal name in the Middle Ages among Christians, too, and in Wales and southern England it was used among Nonconformists from the 17th century onward.
Jewish: surname adopted by Jews with reference to the ancient Kingdom of Israel, destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC , or to the concept of Jewish nationhood, or, in modern times, to the state of Israel.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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