When Elum Lockwood was born on 24 September 1860, in Austin, Texas, United States, his father, W. R Lockwood, was 26 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Manchester, was 24. He married Johanna Marie Meissner on 26 November 1889, in Austin, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Justice Precinct 5, Stephens, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 31 December 1893, in Austin, Texas, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Star Hill Cemetery, Austin, Texas, United States.
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On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
English: habitational name from one of three places called Lockwood, one in Yorkshire, one in North Yorkshire and another in Staffordshire. The Yorkshire and Staffordshire placenames both derive from Old English loc ‘lock, enclosure, fold’ + wudu ‘wood’. The North Yorkshire placename derives from Old English loc + Old Norse vithr ‘wood’. The surname appears to have migrated to East Anglia.
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