When John Erwin Strange was born on 25 January 1832, in Banks, Georgia, United States, his father, William Strange Sr., was 34 and his mother, Mary White, was 28. He married Judah Elizabeth Poole on 1 May 1866, in Banks, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Franklin, Georgia, United States in 1850 and District 1206, Banks, Georgia, United States for about 30 years. He died on 20 December 1904, in Banks, Georgia, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Nails Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Jewelville, Banks, Georgia, United States.
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A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
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 1859: Banks, Georgia, United States
English (Wiltshire and Gloucestershire): nickname for a newcomer to a district, from Middle English strange ‘foreign’ (Old French estrange, Latin extraneus, from extra ‘outside’).
Irish (Antrim): this name is also common in Ireland, where, in addition to its English etymology, it may represent an Anglicized form of any of several Irish names containing the element gall ‘stranger’, e.g. Doyle , Gallagher .
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