When Huron Loomis was born in 1834, in Canton, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Seth Loomis, was 31 and his mother, Harriet Simpkins, was 30. He married Harriet Genevra Evans on 3 March 1861, in McHenry, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Coral, McHenry, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Illinois, United States in 1870.
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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: 1837: McHenry, Illinois, United States
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
English: habitational name from a lost place near Bury inLancashire, recorded in the Middle Ages as Lumhalghs, andapparently named with the Old English elements lumm ‘pool’ +halh ‘nook, recess’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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