Brief Life History of Samuel Lawrence
When Samuel Lawrence Breland was born on 22 June 1844, in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States, his father, William Spencer Breland, was 47 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Kearse, was 29. He married Julia Warham Preacher about 1861, in United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 12 daughters. He lived in Bartholomews, Colleton, South Carolina, United States in 1860 and Bell Township, Colleton, South Carolina, United States for about 50 years. He died on 11 August 1931, in Colleton, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Breland Cemetery, Colleton, South Carolina, United States.
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- Samuel Breland, "United States Census, 1870"
- S Lawrence Breland, "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949"
- S. Lawrence Breland, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Breler, itself an old (extinct) variant of Brehler: topographic name, concentrated in the area around Fulda, from Middle High German brüel ‘watery, wet meadow’. Compare Breeland .
Norwegian: habitational name from the farm name Bre(i)land, from brei ‘wide’ or bre ‘glacier’ + land ‘(piece of) land, farmstead’.
History: The progenitor of the majority of the American Brelands was Hans Georg Breler from Salzschlirf near Fulda, Germany, who arrived in PA c. 1755. He and his sons changed their surname, which was recorded in various very different spellings, to Breland some time after 1790.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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