When Merritt Staley was born on 18 May 1835, in Johnstown, Fulton, New York, United States, his father, Conrad Staley, was 33 and his mother, Hannah Tripp, was 34. He married Martha Rebecca Farley on 1 March 1857, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1860 and Coalville, Summit, Utah, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 10 May 1896, in Rancho Dublan, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the age of 60, and was buried in Rancho Dublan, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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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 1844: Mexican Territory 1850: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
Santa Anna returns to Mexico and becomes president. Sells additional territory to United States under Gadsden Purchase.
English: habitational name from Staveley in Derbyshire, Stayley in Lancashire (now called Stalybridge in Greater Manchester), or perhaps Staveley (Westmorland), Staveley (Lancashire), or Staveley (Yorkshire). The placenames all derive from Old English stæf ‘staff, stave, rod’ (genitive plural stafa) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Staveley .
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