Brief Life History of Edward Underwood
When Edward Underwood Adair was born on 23 September 1833, in Cherokee, Georgia, United States, his father, Walter Scott Adair, was 42 and his mother, Nancy Nerche Harris, was 26. He died on 4 November 1861, in Flint District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Stilwell, Adair, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Edward Adair, "Find A Grave Index"
- Edward Underwood Adair, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (5)
1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish: from the Scottish personal name Adair, a form of Edgar .
History: James Adair (c. 1709–83) was an ‘Indian trader’ in SC from 1735; he was born in Antrim, northern Ireland. Baron William Adair, from Scotland, also settled in SC at around the same period.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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