When Richard Thompson Mitchell was born in May 1839, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Morris Mitchell, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Mills, was 35. He married Abigail Jane Short on 21 November 1866, in Collin, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Collin, Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 8, Collin, Texas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 23 May 1904, in Blue Ridge, Collin, Texas, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery, Blue Ridge, Collin, Texas, United States.
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Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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