Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Copeland was born in 1833, in Glennville, Tattnall, Georgia, United States, her father, Jesse Copeland, was 48 and her mother, Charlotte A. Surrency, was 48. She married Henry Jackson Surrency about 1853, in Glennville, Tattnall, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died in 1917, in Tattnall, Georgia, United States, at the age of 84.
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- Jane Surrencey in household of Henry J Surrencey, "United States Census, 1860"
- Jane Copeland in household of Charlotte A Copeland, "United States Census, 1850"
- Jane Sunency in household of Heny Sunency, "United States Census, 1870"
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World Events (8)
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.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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