When Elizabeth Jane Tye was born on 7 April 1832, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States, her father, William “Billy Blow” C. Tye, was 25 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth Harp, was 20. She married Richard Henry Alsip in 1852, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Precinct 6 Martin Springs, Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 2, Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1900. She died on 6 August 1911, in Corbin, Whitley, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Ward Cemetery, Corbin, Whitley, 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.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
English (mainly Kent): from Middle English tye, teghe, teye ‘enclosed piece of land; large area of common pasture’ (Old English tēag, tīege). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on or near such a piece of land, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Teigh (Rutland) or Great, Little, and Marks Tey (Essex).
North German: from a short form, Tide, of the personal name Dietrich .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 鄭, probably representing its Teochew, Hokkien, or Taiwanese pronunciation. See Zheng 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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