When Samuel Fritz was born on 3 December 1832, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Martin Luther Fritz, II, was 42 and his mother, Johanna Sarah Mary Huffman, was 37. He married Margaret Arthur on 13 April 1862, in Spencer, Washington Township, Owen, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Cedarville, Crawford, Arkansas, United States in 1910. He died on 29 September 1911, in Crawford, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Chester, Crawford, Arkansas, 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.
Historical Boundaries - 1852: Crawford, Arkansas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
German: from a pet form of the personal name Friedrich . This form of the surname is also found in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France (Alsace and Lorraine), and also in central European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, and Slovakia, where it is more often spelled in the Slavicized form Fric (see below).
Americanized or Germanized form of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Fric: from the personal name Fric, a pet form, of German origin (see above), of Old Czech and Slovak Fridrich, Slovenian Friderik, Croatian Fridrik, equivalents of German Friedrich .
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