When Samuel Jason Vanlandingham was born on 14 November 1828, in Chester, South Carolina, United States, his father, Dawson Paschall Van Landingham, was 30 and his mother, Naomi Berry Stringfellow, was 30. He married Mary Elizabeth Grigsby in 1849, in Walker, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Winston, Mississippi, United States in 1870. He died on 10 November 1893, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, Texas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Nat Community Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Texas, United States.
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In 1829 Fort Sumter is constructed in the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Fort Sumter is most known for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War. It is barely ready when the American Civil War starts.
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.
Known in the United States as the Mexican War. President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna did not officially acknowledge the secession of Texas, and interpreted the US involvement with Texas as an invasion of borders. Mexican forces attacked American forces in an event called the Thornton Affair, prompting President James K. Polk to send a request for war to Congress. The war ended when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848, which required the Mexican Cession of the northern territories and acceptance of the Rio Grande as the southern border of the United States. At the same time, the U.S. committed to pay Mexico $15 million for war damages and assumed roughly $3.25 million of their existing debt.
Americanized form of Flemish Van Landeghem: habitational name for someone from Landegem, near Ghent, in Flanders. Compare Landingham , Laningham , Vallandingham , and Van Laningham .
History: Bearers of this surname are descended from Michael van Landeghem from Flanders, who was in Stafford County, VA, by 1690.
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