Brief Life History of Smith Samson
When Smith Samson Bills was born in 1833, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Benjamin B. Bills, was 34 and his mother, Laura Stockwell, was 21. He married Elizabeth Jane Stull in 1854, in Greenup, Cumberland, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Cumberland, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Diona, Coles, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died in August 1880, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 47.
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- S S Bills, "United States Census, 1860"
- Samson Bills in entry for Benjamin B Bills and Isadora Bills, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Smith Bills, "United States Census, 1870"
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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.
1843
Historical Boundaries: 1843: Cumberland, Illinois, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): variant of Bill 1 and 2, with, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dutch: from bijl ‘axe’, used to denote someone who made or used axes.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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