When George Meredith Poole was born on 19 February 1861, in Montgomery, Texas, United States, his father, Henry Joseph Pool, was 35 and his mother, Cebell Byrdsong, was 19. He married Lutitia Ann Myers on 7 February 1884, in Grimes, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Grimes, Texas, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 4, Walker, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 30 January 1940, in Walker, Texas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in New Waverly, Walker, Texas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Walker, Texas, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English: from Middle English pol(e), polle, poul(e) ‘pool, pond’ (Old English pōl). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by a pool, or habitative, from a place so named.
English: variant of Paul .
Possibly an Americanized form of German Puhl or Pfuhl(e) (see Pool 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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