When Margaret Chenoweth was born in January 1815, in Randolph, Virginia, United States, her father, Jehu Ichell Chenoweth, was 22 and her mother, Eleanor Skidmore, was 16. She married Thomas Jefferson Caplinger on 4 December 1834, in Randolph, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Beverly, Randolph, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 November 1888, in Randolph, Virginia, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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.
Cornish: topographic name from the elements chy ‘house’ + noweth ‘new’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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