When Rebecca Ann Byerly was born on 13 November 1837, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Adam Byerly, was 42 and her mother, Nancy Ann Andrews, was 17. She married Augustus F. Biscamp on 12 October 1854, in Jasper, Jasper, Republic of Texas. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Orange, Texas, United States in 1860 and Texas, United States in 1870. She died on 14 January 1878, in Jasper, Jasper, Republic of Texas, at the age of 40, and was buried in Ebenezer Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper, Texas, United States.
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Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The United States Congress passed a package of five separate bills in an attempt to decrease tensions between the slave states and free states. The compromise itself was received gratefully, but both sides disapproved of certain components contained in the laws. Texas was impacted in several ways; mainly, the state surrendered its claim to New Mexico (and other claims north of 36°30′) but retained the Texas Panhandle. The federal government also took over the public debt for Texas.
English (Hampshire): habitational name from Bierley in Whitwell (Isle of Wight).
English: variant of Birley, a habitational name from Birley (in Ecclesfield, Yorkshire), East or North Bierley (Yorkshire), or Birley (Derbyshire). In post-medieval records the Yorkshire surname was frequently spelled Burley. See Bierly .
Americanized form of German Beierle or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname. Compare Bierly and Byerley .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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