Brief Life History of Lucy Cynthia
When Lucy Cynthia Holland was born on 19 December 1842, in South Moniteau Township, Cooper, Missouri, United States, her father, Needham Holland, was 26 and her mother, Matilda Blankenship, was 25. She married James Bradley Box about 1864, in Moniteau Township, Cooper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Harwood, Vernon, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Webster Groves, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 31 July 1913, in Cleburne, Johnson, Texas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Cleburne, Riley, Kansas, United States.
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- Lucey C Box in household of J B Box, "United States Census, 1900"
- Lucy, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
- Lucy C Holland Box in entry for Mabelle Box, "Missouri Births, 1817-1939"
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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
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Kansas is the 34th state
Name Meaning
English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Holland, a province of the Netherlands.
English: habitational name from Downholland or Upholland (Lancashire), Hulland (Derbyshire), the Parts of Holland, one of the three administrative subdivisions of Lincolnshire, any of the four places called Hoyland (southern Yorkshire), and possibly Great and Little Holland (Essex). The placenames all derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + land ‘land’.
English: habitational name either from Hoeland (Farm) in Bury (Sussex), or from Holland's Barn in Albourne (Sussex). The placename in Bury has the same etymology as in 1 above, while the placename in Albourne may derive from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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