When Josephine A Sturkie was born about 1846, in Alabama, United States, her father, Daniel Sturkie, was 38 and her mother, Cassender, was 37. She married James Edward Phillips on 23 February 1865, in Calhoun, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Benton, Alabama, United States in 1850 and Calhoun, Alabama, United States in 1860. She died on 18 May 1866, in Texas, United States, at the age of 21.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Known in the United States as the Mexican War. President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna did not officially acknowledge the secession of Texas, and interpreted the US involvement with Texas as an invasion of borders. Mexican forces attacked American forces in an event called the Thornton Affair, prompting President James K. Polk to send a request for war to Congress. The war ended when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848, which required the Mexican Cession of the northern territories and acceptance of the Rio Grande as the southern border of the United States. At the same time, the U.S. committed to pay Mexico $15 million for war damages and assumed roughly $3.25 million of their existing debt.
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Possibly English: variant of Starkey .
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