When Margaret Ann Lane was born on 13 October 1840, in Jasper, Georgia, United States, her father, James Addison Lane, was 26 and her mother, Matilda Susan Willson, was 21. She married Christopher Richard Claybrook on 17 January 1861, in Bosque, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Palmyra, Marion, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Washington, Washington, Texas, United States in 1850. She died on 21 March 1873, in Bosque, Texas, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Kimball Cemetery, Morgan, Bosque, Texas, United States.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The United States Congress passed a package of five separate bills in an attempt to decrease tensions between the slave states and free states. The compromise itself was received gratefully, but both sides disapproved of certain components contained in the laws. Texas was impacted in several ways; mainly, the state surrendered its claim to New Mexico (and other claims north of 36°30′) but retained the Texas Panhandle. The federal government also took over the public debt for Texas.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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