When Lydia Ann Lake was born on 13 May 1832, in Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Madison Lake Jr., was 43 and her mother, Philomela Smith, was 38. She married Price Williams Nelson on 31 December 1850, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1858 and lived in Pine Creek, Gila, Arizona, United States in 1880 and Apache, Arizona, United States in 1920. She died on 14 January 1924, in Eagar, Apache, Arizona, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Eagar Cemetery, Eagar, Apache, Arizona, United States.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Cache, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Cache, Utah, United States
English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesRELATED COMPANIES James Lake Company (1850) In the summer of 1850 we went forth again in the time to join a company of saints moving to the Valley. My father [James Lake] was chosen captain of fifty. …
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