Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Bradford was born on 14 April 1835, in Switzerland, Indiana, United States, her father, Jesse Bradford, was 32 and her mother, Mary Jane Hedges, was 25. She married Cornelius Robert Harris on 25 January 1863, in Vevay, Switzerland, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Rising Sun, Randolph Township, Ohio, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. She died on 20 September 1922, in Ohio, Indiana, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Rising Sun Cemetery, Rising Sun, Randolph Township, Ohio, Indiana, United States.
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- Jane Harris, "United States Census, 1900"
- Jane Bradford, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Mrs Jane Harris in the Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017
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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.
1844
Historical Boundaries: 1844: Ohio, Indiana, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, Cheshire, Wiltshire and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.
History: This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to North America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times. Another William Bradford (1663–1752), printer, came from Barnwell, Leicestershire, England, to Philadelphia, PA, in 1685, subsequently moving to New York, where he set up a printing press and founded a paper mill. His grandson, also called William Bradford (1721–91), was known as ‘the patriot printer’, famous for his Philadelphia newspaper, which among other things denounced the Stamp Act, "which no American can mention without abhorrence".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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