When Abagail J Jones was born on 25 December 1815, in Burns, Allegany, New York, United States, her father, John Jones, was 32 and her mother, Adah Martha Smith, was 32. She married Thomas Van Scoter on 23 January 1834, in Le Roy, LeRoy, Genesee, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Portland, Chautauqua, New York, United States in 1855 and Pomfret, Chautauqua, New York, United States for about 5 years. She died on 4 October 1884, at the age of 68, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Fredonia, Chautauqua, New York, 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.
Incorporated in 1829.
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.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
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