When Mary Winstead was born about 1806, in Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States, her father, Jeremiah Winstead, was 32 and her mother, Phereby Batts, was 29. She married William Baines Batts in 1837, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Wilson, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years and Toisnot Township, Wilson, North Carolina, United States in 1880.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
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.
English: habitational name, perhaps from Wanstead in Greater London (formerly Esses), recorded in Domesday Book as Wenesteda ‘site (Old English stede) by a mound (Old English wænn) or where wagons (Old English wǣn) are kept’, but more likely from Winestead in East Yorkshire, named from Old English wīf ‘wife’ or a female personal name Wīfa + stede ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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