When Rabun Monroe Scarborough was born in 1826, in Houston County, Texas, United States, his father, Ichabod Scarborough, was 46 and his mother, Sarah Sally Warren, was 39. He married Martha Lucinda Davis in 1847, in Quincy, Gadsden, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Gadsden, Florida, United States in 1850 and Chattahoochee, Gadsden, Florida, United States in 1860. He died on 5 May 1862, in Florida, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Houston, Georgia, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1828: Gadsden, Florida Territory, United States 1845: Gadsden, Florida, United States
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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.
English (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Scarborough (North Yorkshire), from the Old Norse personal name Skarthi + Old Norse borg ‘fortress, fortified town’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesRabun was the son of Ichabod Scarborough & Sarah Warren, one of eight known children born to the family. His parents were from North Carolina and were in Montgomery County, Georgia by 1806. Rabun ma …
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