When Margaret Glazener was born about 1830, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Jesse Kitchen Glazener, was 29 and her mother, Malinda Ann Harris, was 36. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with William H Riggs. She lived in Cherokee, Alabama, United States for about 10 years and Maysfield, Milam, Texas, United States in 1880.
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In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
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.
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Probably an Americanized form of German Glasner or Gläsner, variants of Glaser .
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