When James Newton Duff was born on 17 June 1834, in Clay, Illinois, United States, his father, David Dryden Duff, was 39 and his mother, Mary G Edmiston, was 34. He married Emma Brissenden on 7 January 1875, in Clay, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He lived in Johnson, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 4 December 1912, in Clay City, Clay, Illinois, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Clay City, Clay, Illinois, United States.
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The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
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.
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Clay, Illinois, United States
Irish and Scottish: from Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’, used both as a nickname and a personal name. In Scotland, it is typically a descriptive epithet for a dark-haired man (compare Dow 1). In Ireland, it is usually from Ó Duibh ‘descendant of Dubh’ or Mac Giolla Duibh ‘son of the servant of Dubh’. It is also found as a short form of Duffin and a variant of Duffy . See also McDuff .
In some cases possibly also a shortened form of Breton Le Duff , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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