Brief Life History of Elijah
When Elijah Lucas was born on 16 September 1832, in Gibson, Indiana, United States, his father, Oliver Lucas, was 40 and his mother, Jane Leach, was 26. He married Margaret Elizabeth Woods on 15 November 1853, in Gibson, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Montgomery Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Patoka Township, Pike, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 June 1882, in Pike, Indiana, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Winslow, Patoka Township, Pike, Indiana, United States.
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- Elijah Lucas, "United States Census, 1870"
- Elijah Lucas, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Elijah Lucas, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1837
Historical Bounaries: 1837: Pike, Indiana, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch: from the Latin personal name Lucas (Greek Loukas) ‘man from Lucania’. Lucania is a region of southern Italy thought to have been named in ancient times with a word meaning ‘bright’ or ‘shining’ (compare Lucio ). The Christian name owed its enormous popularity throughout Europe in the Middle Ages to Saint Luke the Evangelist, hence the development of this surname and many vernacular derivatives in most of the languages of Europe. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Loukas , Hungarian Lukács (see Lukacs ), German, Dutch, etc. Lukas , Polish Łukasz, Czech and Slovak Lukáš, Czech Lukeš, Slovenian and Croatian Lukež (see Lukes ). Compare Luke .
Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lùcais (see McLucas ).
History: Jacques Lucas dit Lépine from Port-en-Bessin-Huppain in Calvados, France, married Françoise Capel in Trois-Rivières, QC, in 1653.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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