Brief Life History of Franklin Tate
When Franklin Tate Brown was born on 26 June 1833, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Duff Brown, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Harrington Wade, was 25. He married Georgiana A. McLemore on 1 January 1856, in Travis, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Texas, United States in 1870 and Austin, Travis, Texas, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 27 January 1913, in Austin, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Austin, Travis, Texas, United States.
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- Frank Brown, "United States Census, 1880"
- Frank Brown, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Frank Brown, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"
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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.
1837
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Austin, Republic of Texas 1845: Austin, Texas, United States
1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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