When Rebecca Duke Miller was born on 22 September 1834, in Kentucky Town, Grayson, Texas, United States, her father, John Taylor Duke, was 29 and her mother, Nancy Jane Mathis, was 27. She married Noah Miller on 6 February 1851, in Marshall, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Liscomb, Marshall, Iowa, United States in 1870 and Polk Township, Shelby, Iowa, United States for about 20 years. She died on 11 July 1906, in Shelby, Iowa, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Red Line Cemetery, Red Line, Shelby, Iowa, 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: 1849: Grayson, Texas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: nickname from Middle English duk(ke), duck, doke, dook ‘duck’ (Old English dūce), either from a perceived resemblance (perhaps a waddling gait) or from association with wild fowling. Compare Duck , Drake .
English: from the Middle English personal name Duk or Duke. In northern England this is usually a pet form of Marmaduke. It may alternatively be a survival of one or more Old English personal names, though it is uncertain whether they were still current in the period of surname formation. Old English Ducc(a) is attested in placenames like Duxford (Cambridgeshire) and Duckington (Cheshire), and was perhaps interchangeable with Docc, attested in Doxey (Staffordshire) and Doxford (Northumberland). Duke could also represent Old English Deowuc (as in Deuxhill, Shropshire). A surname from Marmaduke is on record until at least 1881 and derives from the personal name Marmaduke, apparently an Anglo-Norman French pronunciation of Old Irish Maolmaedóc ‘devotee of Maedóc’; see Duckett .
Americanized form of Polish Duk: nickname from dukać ‘to stammer or falter’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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