When Isabella Ann Geary was born on 25 July 1835, in Osbornes Mills, Roane, Virginia, United States, her father, Mathew Geary, was 44 and her mother, Elizabeth Elmira Mary Ashley, was 28. She married Dr. Patrick Henry McCan on 10 May 1851, in Kanawha, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Geary District, Roane, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years and Edison, Furnas, Nebraska, United States in 1910. She died on 23 January 1922, in Sterling, Rice, Kansas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Edison Cemetery, Edison, Furnas, Nebraska, 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.
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra ‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O'Gara ).
Irish: alternatively, possibly a shortened form of McGeary .
English: from the Old French personal name Geri, ancient Germanic Geric, from gēr ‘spear’ + rīc ‘power(ful)’.
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