Brief Life History of Jane Harris
When Jane Harris Baum was born on 2 July 1832, in Brandywine Manor, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Jacob Baum Jr, was 38 and her mother, Agnes "Nancy" Harris, was 38. She married Elisha Thomas on 10 July 1854, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870 and Lancaster Township, Wells, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 20 June 1903, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Jane H. Thomas, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jane Harris Baum - birth-name: Jane Harris Baum
- Jane Harris Baum Thomas, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1839 · Nauvoo is Settled
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
1853
The Provo City Cemetery was dedicated in 1853.
Name Meaning
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a tree that was particularly noticeable in some way, from Middle High German, Old High German boum ‘tree’, or else a nickname for a particularly tall person.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Baum ‘tree’, or a short form of any of the many artificial surnames containing this word as the final element, for example Feigenbaum ‘fig tree’ (see Feige ) and Mandelbaum ‘almond tree’ (see Mandel ).
English (Leicestershire): variant of Balme, a habitational name from Balne in Yorkshire, so named with Middle English balne ‘bath, bathing place’ (from Latin balneum ‘bathing place’). There is no early evidence suggesting possible derivation from Middle English balme, baume ‘balm, balsam’, though this word has probably influenced the name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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