When Edwin Cleaves was born on 10 November 1833, in Franklin, Vermont, United States, his father, Jefferson Cleaves, was 25 and his mother, Almira Twombly, was 24. He married Phoebe Brown on 3 February 1858, in Brown, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Brown, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Lee Township, Brown, Illinois, United States for about 60 years. He died on 2 August 1922, in Timewell, Brown, Illinois, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Fargo, Brown, Illinois, United States.
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The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery.
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: 1860: Brown, Illinois, United States
English: variant of Cleave (see Cliff ), with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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