Brief Life History of Charles Henry
When Pvt. Charles Henry Foshay was born on 11 October 1835, in Farmers Mills, Kent, Putnam, New York, United States, his father, John W. Foshay, was 20 and his mother, Susan Russell, was 18. He married Laura A. Chase on 29 August 1857, in Carmel, Putnam, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Huntington, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1900 and New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1910. He died on 18 January 1913, in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Westville Cemetery, Beaver Hills, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Charles Foshay, "United States Census, 1900"
- Charles Henry Foshay, "Find A Grave Index"
- Charles H Foshay, "Oregon, Marion County, Silverton Obituaries, 1893-1912"
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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.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Breton (mainly Côtes-d'Armor) Le Faucheur: occupational name from French faucheur ‘mower, reaper’, with the French masculine definite article le, probably used as a translation into French of the Breton cognates, such as Le Falher, from falc'her, a word which is like the French one ultimately derived from Latin falx ‘sickle, scythe’. Compare Forsha , Forshay , Forshee , and Forshey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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