When Riley Lafayette Turnbow was born in 1834, in Graves, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Turnbow Sr., was 20 and his mother, Rachael Shultz, was 22. He married Permilia Wilmurt Cochran on 3 January 1855, in Henry, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Calloway, Kentucky, United States in 1850. He died in 1861, in Farmington, Graves, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Antioch Church Cemetery, Tracy, Barren, Kentucky, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1836: Graves, Kentucky, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Americanized form of Alsatian Dürrenbach: habitational name from Dürrenbach in Bas-Rhin (Alsace, France), a placename meaning ‘dry stream’. Compare Turnbaugh , Turnbo , Turnbough , and Turnpaugh .
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Dürnbach (see Durnbaugh ).
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