Brief Life History of Louisa
When Louisa Braman was born on 4 March 1811, in Nelson, Nelson, Madison, New York, United States, her father, Reverend Jesse David Braman, was 28 and her mother, Nancy Ward, was 27. She had at least 1 son with Wakeman B. Sherwood. She lived in Berlin, Green Lake, Wisconsin, United States in 1860. She died on 21 December 1897, in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States.
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- Louisa Sherwood, "United States Census, 1880"
- Louisa Braman Sherwood, "Find A Grave Index"
- L. B. Sherwood in entry for Wm. A. Sherwood and Josephene Tolman, "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930"
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1829
American settlers began mining the Wisconsin Territory in the early 1800's. The lead ore in the territory had largely been mined previously by American Indians. By 1829, nearly 4,000 miners had moved to Wisconsin Territory. The miners became known as badgers as they burrowed into hillsides for shelter. The name eventually represented the state and Wisconsin is now known as the Badger State. (Wisconsin Historical Society: Lead Mining in Southwestern Wisconsin)
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.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of North German Bramann, a topographic name from Middle Low German brām ‘swampy thicket’ + man ‘man’, or of Brahmann, a shortened form of Brademann, of uncertain origin.
English: variant of Bramham . Compare Brayman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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