Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Yearout was born on 31 December 1835, in Blount, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Yearout, was 40 and her mother, Martha "Patsy" Raulston, was 36. She married John A Dyer on 7 November 1859, in Blount, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in District 9, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Greenville, Hunt, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 1 August 1906, in Hunt, Texas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in East Mount Cemetery, Greenville, Hunt, Texas, United States.
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- Margaret Yearnet in household of John Yearnet, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Harrett Yearout - Government record: Census record: birth:
- Maragarett Yearout, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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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
Americanized form of German Jurreit, German form of Lithuanian Jurgaitis, a patronymic from the personal name Jurǧis, Lithuanian form of Greek Geōrgios (see George ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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