When Margaret Bales was born about 1834, in Bloomington, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, her father, James Bales Jr, was 39 and her mother, Peggy Margaret Chestnut, was 27. She married James Washington Sexton on 7 January 1850, in Monroe, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Salt Creek Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died in 1864, in Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Monroe, Indiana, 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.
The Massive Internal Improvements Act of 1836 loaned Indiana $10,000,000 to create infrastructure such as canals, railroads, and roads across the state. The act was signed by Whig Governor Noah Noble and passed by the Indiana General Assembly. However, the financial crisis known as the Panic of 1837 thwarted these plans as costs ballooned. Construction on the infrastructure was not completed and the state debt rapidly increased.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: either a variant of Bale , with excrescent -s, or a variant of Bayliss .
English: habitational name from Bayles in Alston, Cumbria.
Slovak and Czech (Báleš, rarely Baleš): from a pet form of Bal, a short form of the personal name Baltazar (Slovak Baltazár).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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