When James Wilkerson Mansfield Wheeler was born on 3 December 1832, in Livingston, Kentucky, United States, his father, James Ambrose Wheeler, was 28 and his mother, Ruth Tabb, was 26. He married Piety Ann Banks on 18 March 1854, in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870. He died on 26 March 1872, in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Crittenden, Kentucky, 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.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
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