Brief Life History of Lydia Ann
When Lydia Ann Porter was born in 1833, her father, James Buchanan Porter Sr., was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Schlotterbeck, was 33. She married John Burns in 1848, in Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in June 1850, in Fremont, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Fremont, Wyoming, United States.
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- Lydia Ann Porter Burns, "Find A Grave Index"
- Lydia Ann Porter Burns, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
- Research Log for Lydia Ann Porter by the BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy
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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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English and Older Scots porter(e), port(o)ur ‘doorkeeper, gatekeeper’ (Anglo-Norman French port(i)er, portur, Latin portarius). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. The name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner ) and Poertner .
English: occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Middle English port(o)ur, porter ‘porter, carrier of burdens’ (Anglo-Norman French portur, porteo(u)r).
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Poorter, status name for a freeman (burgher) of a town, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter. Compare De Porter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Lydia Ann Porter
Lydia Ann Porter was born in 1833 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, to James Buchanan Porter and Elizabeth Sloughterback Porter. She married John Burns, eldest son of Christopher Burns and Rach …
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