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 Phillip Ballard on 15 February 1886, in Columbia, Arkansas, United States. She died on 6 November 1924, in United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Waldo, Columbia, Arkansas, United States.
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A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
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.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
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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