When Sarah Diana Frost was born on 14 August 1834, in Rensselaerville, Albany, New York, United States, her father, George Frost, was 43 and her mother, Abigail Tanner, was 36. She married Jotham Sewall Viles on 9 June 1860, in Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Red Oak Township, Cedar, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Eden Township, Benton, Iowa, United States in 1870. She died on 28 April 1879, in Benton, Benton, Iowa, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in First Eden Cemetery, Benton, Iowa, United States.
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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: 1846: Benton, Iowa, United States
The Great Seal of the State of Iowa was created in 1847 and depicts a soldier standing in a wheat field surrounded by symbols including farming, mining, and transportation with the Mississippi River in the background. An eagle overhead bears the state motto.
English, German, Danish, and Swedish: nickname for someone who suffers from being cold, or perhaps used in the sense ‘frosty, cold as frost, without warmth of feeling’, or perhaps ‘having the appearance of being covered with frost’ for one with white hair or a white beard. From Old English, Old High German, Old Norse frost ‘frost’.
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