Brief Life History of James Franklin
When James Franklin Lamb was born on 9 February 1869, in Arkansas, United States, his father, Christopher Columbus Lamb, was 23 and his mother, Elvira Catherine Whitten, was 25. He married Verna Myrtle Kilgore on 9 February 1902, in Carter, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Zavala, Texas, United States in 1930 and Justice Precinct 8, Atascosa, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 20 February 1941, in Pleasanton, Atascosa, Texas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Pleasanton, Atascosa, Texas, United States.
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- James Lamb in household of Cornelius Lamb, "United States Census, 1870"
- J F Lamb, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- J F Lamb, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
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1870 · Texas Is Restored to the Union
Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1888 · Bauxite Mining Began
Bauxite a rock with relatively high aluminum content, is the main source of aluminum for the world. When it was discovered in Arkansas it changed the state. The city of Bauxite, Arkansas was the site of the discovery.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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