Charity Ann Lavonia Upchurch

Brief Life History of Charity Ann Lavonia

When Charity Ann Lavonia Upchurch was born in 1833, in Henry, Georgia, United States, her father, Claiborne Upchurch, was 44 and her mother, Amey Bunn, was 41. She married Philip Ballard on 15 February 1886, in Columbia, Arkansas, United States. She died in United States, and was buried in Waldo, Columbia, Arkansas, United States.

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Philip Ballard
1820–1903
Charity Ann Lavonia Upchurch
1833–
Marriage: 15 February 1886

Sources (6)

  • Anna Upchurch, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: C Ann L Upchurch - Individual or family possessions: birth: 1833; Henry, Georgia, United States
  • C A Upchurch, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"

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World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

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.

1861

Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.

1864 · Skirmish at Benton

Confederate forces in Arkansas began an invasion of Missouri, while other Confederate sources probed the line around Little Rock. On July  6, 1864 the fourth Arkansas Cavalry tried to break the line around Little Rock one soldier was killed, eight were wounded, three went missing from the Union side and four were killed and six wounded from the Confederate side.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from a place called as ‘the high church’ or possibly the higher of two churches, from Middle English up ‘up, high, higher’ + chirche ‘church’ (Old English upp + cirice). There is a village of this name in Kent, near Chatham, but the geographical distribution of the surname suggests its origin is in Huntingdonshire or Cambridgeshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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