When Catharine Fetzer was born on 3 August 1816, in Boggs Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Michael Fetzer, was 37 and her mother, Mary Holmer, was 38. She married John Foster Poorman Jr on 10 December 1835, in Bellefonte, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 15 August 1882, in Boggs Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Advent Cemetery, Milesburg, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
German:
occupational name for a ragman, from an agent derivative of Middle High German vetze ‘scrap, rag’ or vetzen ‘to tear or shred’.
topographic name for someone who lived in a marshy area, from Swabian Fätsche ‘marsh’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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