Brief Life History of Ivey S. L.
When Ivey S. L. Kirkland was born on 3 March 1845, in Clinch, Georgia, United States, his father, Irvin Kirkland, was 28 and his mother, Syntha Coleman, was 28. He lived in Emanuel, Georgia, United States in 1850. He died in 1865, at the age of 20.
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- Inger Kirkland in household of Ivan Kirkland, "United States Census, 1850"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries 1850: Clinch, Georgia, United States
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called Kirkland (Cumbria, Lancahires; Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, Lanarkshire), all named with Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + land ‘land’, except for the Lancashire placename, which derives from kirkja + lúndr ‘small wood, grove’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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