When Cynthia Perry was born on 14 March 1814, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Daniel Perry, was 44 and her mother, Elizabeth Betsy Nickell, was 45. She married John Grizzell on 20 January 1830, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Carter, Carter, Kentucky, United States in 1850. She died on 9 November 1892, in Carter, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Olive Hill, Carter, Kentucky, United States.
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The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
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.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’, a variant of the personal name Harry (see Harris ).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pear tree (Middle English piri(e), peri(e), puri(e), Old English pirige, pyrige), or a habitational name for someone who owned or came from a place so named. This surname and a number of variants have been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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