When David Wayne Layman was born in September 1833, in Shelby, Indiana, United States, his father, David Layman, was 38 and his mother, Rachel Thurston, was 38. He married Harriett Martha Hill on 4 March 1858, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Jefferson Township, Wayne, Iowa, United States in 1870 and Chester, Thayer, Nebraska, United States in 1885. He died in 1898, in Grand Island, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 65.
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Historical Boundaries: 1834: Grundy, Missouri, United States
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.
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
English: topographic name for a dweller by a woodland clearing or a meadow, from Middle English ley + man. Compare Lee .
English: nickname from layman, a word denoting an uneducated person.
Americanized form of German Lehmann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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