Brief Life History of Julia Ann
When Julia Ann Keeling was born about 1840, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States, her father, Edmund B. Keeling, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth Nancy Baker, was 35. She married Ebenezer Hearn on 3 July 1856, in DeWitt, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Clinton, DeWitt, Texas, United States in 1860. She died on 4 December 1906, in Texas, United States, at the age of 67.
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- Julia Ann Hearn in household of E Hearn, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Julia Ann Keeling - Published information: birth-name: Julia Ann Keeling
- Julian Cheeler, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
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1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
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.
1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English keling, kiling (probably of Old Norse origin) ‘young codfish’, perhaps for a fishmonger or for someone with staring eyes. Alternatively, from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Kel(l)ing, which may be transferred use of the nickname keling. The name has been established in Ireland since the 17th century. It is not to be confused with Irish Keelan .
Americanized form of German Kühling, a patronymic from Colo, probably a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name meaning ‘helmet’.
English: variant of Killing, a habitational name from Kelling (Norfolk) or Nunkeeling (East Yorkshire), both meaning ‘(the place of) the people of a man called Cylla’, from an Old English personal name Cylla + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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