When John Peter Lemmon was born on 29 August 1819, in Virginia, United States, his father, George Samuel LEMON, was 31 and his mother, Nancy Gilliland, was 27. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Mary Ellen Mackey. He died on 30 September 1881, in Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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: variant of Lemon .
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