When John DeKalb Bandy was born in 1834, in Rhea, Tennessee, United States, his father, David Bandy, was 45 and his mother, Margaret Casteel, was 24. He married Mary Elizabeth Hassler on 20 August 1857, in Madison, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Castroville Judicial Township, Monterey, California, United States in 1870 and San Pasqual, San Diego, California, United States in 1880. He died on 27 November 1894, in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 60.
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The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
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: 1850: Los Angeles, California, United States
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English bandi, bondi, bendi, derivatives of Middle English and Old English band, bond, bend ‘band, ribbon, stripe’ + Middle English -i, reinforced by Old French bendé ‘striped’, with reference perhaps to clothing ornamented with ribbons or stripes, or to the diagonal band of a heraldic device. Compare Band .
English: alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English bandy, bendy ‘curved stick’, used for someone with bent or crooked legs.
Czech and Slovak: from a derivative of banda ‘(gipsy) band’, apparently a nickname for a bandsman. This surname is found among Gypsies.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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