Brief Life History of Lorenzo Dow
When Lorenzo Dow Roberts was born on 2 August 1834, in Clay, Missouri, United States, his father, Nicholas Roberts, was 27 and his mother, America Minerva George, was 24. He married Recepity Louisa Knight on 16 March 1854, in Andrew, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Rochester Township, Andrew, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Washington Township, DeKalb, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 16 April 1915, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Union Chapel Cemetery, Sherman Township, DeKalb, Missouri, United States.
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- Lorenzo Roberts, "United States Census, 1870"
- L D Roberts, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Lorenzo D. Roberts, "Find a Grave Index"
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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.
1840
Historical Boundaries: 1840: Buchanan, Missouri , United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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