Brief Life History of Erastus
When Erastus Lamb was born on 17 May 1804, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Daniel Lamb, was 29 and his mother, Prudence Fox, was 28. He married Abigail Mindwell Jackson in 1827, in Romulus, Seneca, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 5 August 1852, in Brule, Keith, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Brule, Keith, Nebraska, United States.
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- Erastus Lamb, "United States Census, 1850"
- Family Data Collection - Births
- Legacy NFS Source: Erastus Lamb - Published information: Journal or diary: death: 5 August 1852; Cedar Bluff, Cedar, Iowa, United States
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Abigail Mindwell Jackson Lamb
Abigail Mindwell Jackson Lamb Abigail Lamb was born in New York in 1807. She married Erastus Lamb about 1829. They made their first home in Huron, Wayne County, New York. It was here a daughter and t …
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