When Douglas Walworth was born on 14 June 1833, in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States, his father, John Periander Walworth, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Wren, was 23. He married Rebecca Anne Conner on 3 January 1856, in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Oden Township, Chicot, Arkansas, United States in 1880. He died on 25 June 1914, in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, 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.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Walworth in Heighington (Durham) and Walworth in Newington (Surrey), both named with Old English w(e)alh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala) + worth ‘enclosure’.
History: A William Walworth of London came to New London, CT, in 1689.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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