Brief Life History of Louisa
When Louisa Westwood was born on 12 September 1833, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Thomas Westwood, was 40 and her mother, Margaret Dorwart, was 34. She married Albert Augustus Messenkopf on 3 April 1853, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 11 October 1864, in her hometown, at the age of 31, and was buried in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Louisa Westwood Messenkop, "Find A Grave Index"
- Louisa Westwood en tant qu’entrée de William Bausman Messenkop, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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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: topographic name habitational name for someone who lived ‘by the west wood’ (Middle English west + wode), or who came from any of numerous places called Westwood (from Old English west ‘west’ + wudu ‘wood’), such as those in Kent, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, or Worcestershire.
History: William Westwood was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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