When Johanna Payne was born in June 1837, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Payne, was 38 and her mother, Hester Esther Beavan, was 31. She married William Jenkins about 1854, in Ashland, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Ashland, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 14 February 1924, in Fountain Springs, Butler Township, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Ashland, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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