Brief Life History of Martin Van Buren
When Martin Van Buren Easterly was born on 8 January 1838, in Whitwell, Marion, Tennessee, United States, his father, Joshua Easterly, was 24 and his mother, Mary Ann Farmer, was 26. He married Sarah Jane Burnett about 1858, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years and Civil District 5, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States in 1910. He died on 11 December 1912, in Whitwell, Marion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Rogers Cemetery, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States.
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- Martin Eastrly in household of Joshua Eastrly, "United States Census, 1860"
- Martan V Easterly, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Martin Van Buren Easterly, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
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.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
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.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Oesterle .
In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Oosterlee: probably a habitational name from the farm name Oosterlee in De Lier, South Holland, or from Oostlaar, in 1293 Oesterle, in the province of North Brabant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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