Brief Life History of Robert Livingston
When Rev. Robert Livingston Thurman was born on 19 November 1815, in Lebanon, Marion, Kentucky, United States, his father, David Thurman, was 23 and his mother, Jemima B Scott, was 18. He married Mary Jane Freeman on 23 October 1845, in Franklin, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 7 July 1894, in Franklin, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bardstown City Cemetery, Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky, United States.
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- R. L. Themian, "United States Census, 1880"
- Robert L. Thurman, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Robert Livingston Turner, "Find A Grave Index"
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1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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
English (Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire): from the Middle English personal name T(h)urmund, Old Norse Thórmundr, composed of the elements Thórr, the name of the Norse god of thunder (see Thor ) + mundr ‘protection’. This personal name in was rare and Thurman may also have derived from the commoner Middle English personal name T(h)urmod, T(h)urmot by assimilation of the second theme -mod, -mot to the element -mund, which is found in several other compound personal names.
Americanized form of German Thurmann: habitational name for someone from a place called Thur (see Thur ).
Americanized form of German Thurmann: occupational name for a watchman, from Middle Low German torn(e)man (torn(e) ‘tower’) or Middle High German turn, turm ‘tower’ + man ‘man’. Compare Turman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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