When George W Stinchcomb was born on 1 July 1835, in Georgia, United States, his father, Nathaniel "Nattie" Stinchcomb, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Susannah Oliver, was 27. He married Mary Ann Chandler on 22 November 1857, in Fayette, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in District 496, Fayette, Georgia, United States in 1850. He died on 7 July 1872, in Fayette, Georgia, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Peachtree City, Fayette, Georgia, 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.
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (Gloucestershire): habitational name from Stinchcombe (Gloucestershiretershire), from Old English stint ‘sandpiper, dunlin’ (genitive stintes) + cumb ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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