When James G. Lum was born on 26 February 1840, in Warren, Mississippi, United States, his father, William Lum, was 45 and his mother, Ann Clarke Gibson, was 33. He married Roberta Brooke on 19 January 1859, in Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 7 March 1862, at the age of 22.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Ship Island was an important port for French Louisiana as it helped to establish the growth of the Gulf Coast. It is nicknamed “Plymouth Rock of the Gulf Coast.” Later it helped Union forces capture New Orleans and Mobile. Located there is Fort Massachusetts. In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, volunteers from Connecticut were sent there. It was used as a place for the POW Confederate soldiers. This area was important to the Battle of Vicksburg and General Sheridan’s victory at Cedar Creek.
English: habitational name from Lumb in Lancashire. In some instances the name may be topographic for someone who lived by a pool, Middle English lum(m).
English: variant of Lamb .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 林 (see Lin 1) and 藍 (see Lan 1), based on their Cantonese pronunciations.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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