When Elizabeth Shepard Crittenden was born on 5 March 1835, in East Middletown, Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, George Crittenden, was 26 and her mother, Ann Eliza Sellew, was 28. She married William Walter Wilcox on 17 November 1853, in East Middletown, Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States in 1850. She died on 10 September 1922, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, 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.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (Kent): habitational name from Crittenden or from a lost place called Cruttenden in Headcorn (both in Kent). The former is named with the Old English personal name Gūthhere + Old English -ing- denoting association with + Old English denn ‘woodland pasture’.
History: The statesman John Jordan Crittenden, who was born near Versailles, KY, in 1787, was of Welsh descent on his father's side. His immigrant ancestor arrived in VA before 1650. His father, a major in the American Revolution, moved from VA to KY and settled in Woodford Co.
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