Brief Life History of Elizabeth M.
When Elizabeth M. Adams was born about 1834, in Jackson, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, her father, John Quincy Adams, was 28 and her mother, Catharine Hayden, was 28. She married John Ashley Bennett on 19 September 1850, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Byrd Township, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died on 22 April 1869, in Jackson, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States.
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- Elizabeth Adams in household of Catharin Rumsey, "United States Census, 1850"
- Elizabeth M Adams, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Elizabeth M. Bennett in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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