Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Letcher was born in September 1832, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States, his father, Judge James Hughes Letcher, was 31 and his mother, Agnes "Nancy" T Kennedy, was 18. He married Jane Cummings Ingram on 7 September 1858, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 2 Spottsville, Henderson, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 13 July 1908, in Henderson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky, United States.
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- Benjamin Letcher in household of James H Letcher, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Benjamin Letcher - Published information: Obituary: birth: September 1832; Garrard, Kentucky, United States
- Ben Letcher, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English lecher, lechour, lichour ‘physician’, a derivative of the verb lechen, lichen ‘to cure, treat with medicines’.
English: nickname from Middle English lech(o)ur, lecher, lichour ‘debauchee, glutton, rake, lecher, paramour’ (Old French lecheor).
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream or wet place, Middle English leche, lache + -er. This type of name is found mainly in the most southerly English counties, especially Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex. Compare Leachman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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