When Martha Elizabeth White was born on 29 December 1848, in Fannin Land District, Texas, United States, her father, Andrew White, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Sebastian, was 20. She married Aurelius Delphus Bourland Sr on 1 July 1872, in Fannin, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She lived in Justice Precinct 1, Wilbarger, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 4, Tarrant, Texas, United States in 1930. She died on 7 November 1936, in Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Bourland Cemetery, Keller, Tarrant, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1849: Tarrant, Texas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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