When Abram F. Spoor was born on 4 March 1835, in Coxsackie, Greene, New York, United States, his father, Peter Spoor, was 43 and his mother, Eva Van Hoesen, was 38. He married Josephine B. Hallenbeck on 21 February 1858, in Coxsackie, Coxsackie, Greene, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Greene, New York, United States in 1892 and Coxsackie, Coxsackie, Greene, New York, United States for about 20 years. He died on 17 February 1921, in Coxsackie, Greene, New York, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Athens Rural Cemetery, Athens, Greene, New York, 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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Dutch and English (Durham and Northumberland): metonymic occupational name for a maker of spurs, a lorimer, from Middle Dutch spore, Middle English spore, spure ‘spur’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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