Brief Life History of Emily Frances
When Emily Frances Jacks was born about 1834, in Georgia, United States, her father, John William Jacks, was 36 and her mother, Jane Maxey, was 45.
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1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (Shropshire and Midlands): variant of Jack , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The name was sometimes misleadingly "Frenchified" in the 16th and 17th centuries to Jacques , as though from the French name, equivalent to English James .
North German: patronymic from Jack 4. Compare Yax .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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