Brief Life History of Amaryllis Adeline
When Amaryllis Adeline Horton was born on 28 May 1819, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States, her father, Grief Horton, was 35 and her mother, Jemima Margaret Broyles, was 29. She married James Mattison Gambrell on 22 February 1839, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Anderson, Anderson, South Carolina, United States in 1850 and Whitfield, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 February 1894, in Waco, Milam, Republic of Texas, at the age of 74, and was buried in Oldenburg, Fayette, Texas, United States.
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- Amaryllis E Gambrell in household of James Gambrell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Amarillys Adaline Horton - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Amarillys Evaline Horton
- Amaryllis Earle Horton Gambrell, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1837
Historical Boundaries 1837: Milam, Republic of Texas 1845: Milam, Texas, United States 1850: McLennan, Texas, United States
1844 · German Immigration to Texas
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.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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