When Elizabeth Gail Grantham was born on 10 February 1811, in Christian, Kentucky, United States, her father, John H Grantham, was 37 and her mother, Elisabeth Harrison, was 35. She married Chester Aquilla Wiley on 14 April 1830, in Montgomery, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Howard Township, Gentry, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 1 March 1895, in Albany, Gentry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Lone Star, Gentry, Missouri, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Historical Boundaries: 1821: Montgomery, Illinois, United States
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 East Yorkshire): habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, of uncertain origin. The final element is Old English hām ‘homestead’; the first may be Old English grand ‘gravel’ or perhaps a personal name Granta, which probably originated as a byname meaning ‘snarler’. See also Graham .
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