When Elender Jane Blair was born in January 1836, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Thomas Blair, was 51 and her mother, Betsey Phillips, was 34. She married Berry Young Cantrell Sr. on 15 January 1852, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Civil District 9, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died on 12 April 1902, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 66.
Do you know Elender Jane? Do you have a story about her that you would like to share? Sign In or Create a FREE Account
+5 More Children
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAs a nonprofit, we offer free help to those looking to learn the details of their family story.