When Mary A Tapp was born on 8 April 1835, in Indiana, United States, her father, Richard Thompson Tapp, was 21 and her mother, Sarah Sellers, was 26. She married Bernard Eldo Figg on 5 February 1858, in Johnson, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Union Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Hensley Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died on 29 June 1861, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Dollings Cemetery, Union Township, Johnson, Indiana, 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.
The Massive Internal Improvements Act of 1836 loaned Indiana $10,000,000 to create infrastructure such as canals, railroads, and roads across the state. The act was signed by Whig Governor Noah Noble and passed by the Indiana General Assembly. However, the financial crisis known as the Panic of 1837 thwarted these plans as costs ballooned. Construction on the infrastructure was not completed and the state debt rapidly increased.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: from the early Middle English personal name Tapp (Old English Tæppa). The unrecorded Old English personal name is thought to be the first element of the placenames Taplow (Buckinghamshire), Tapners (Kent), Tappington (Kent), and Tapton (Derbyshire). See also Taplin .
English: variant of Topp .
English: possibly a nickname from Middle English tape ‘ribbon, tape’, or tappe ‘plug, tap’; ‘tap, knock’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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