When Lillis Ann Bourland was born on 16 October 1834, in Itawamba, Mississippi, United States, her father, James Spears Bourland, was 35 and her mother, Mary Hudspeth, was 36. She lived in Beat 3, Itawamba, Mississippi, United States for about 20 years. She was buried in Cardsville, Itawamba, 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.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
English (Hampshire): variant of Burland . This surname is now rare in Britain.
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