When Alexander Boggs Martin Ellis was born on 12 October 1833, in Brown, Ohio, United States, his father, John Hezekiah Ellis, was 33 and his mother, Hannah Martin, was 27. He married Lois A Pratt on 14 May 1858, in Harrison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 5 February 1913, in Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rose Hill Memorial Gardens, Missouri Valley, Harrison, 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: 1851: Harrison, Iowa, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Harrison, Iowa, United States
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
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