Brief Life History of Jesse Brewer
When Jesse Brewer Lake was born on 3 August 1854, in Thompson Township, Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Peter P Lake, was 35 and his mother, Lista Mary Frances Covalt, was 35. He married Elmira K Barton about 1879, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 26 January 1892, in Thompson Township, Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Big Cove Tannery, Ayr Township, Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Jesse B Lake in household of Peter Lake, "United States Census, 1880"
- Jesse Brewer Lake, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jesse B Lake in entry for Mary Angeline Lake, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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