When William F Marsh was born on 29 August 1834, in Heath, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, David Marsh, was 52 and his mother, Sophia Childs, was 46. He married Julia A Lanfair on 22 September 1859, in Heath, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States for about 30 years. He died on 26 January 1915, in West Deerfield, Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Baptist Cemetery, Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, 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.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mersch (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places called with this word, for example in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire.
Americanized form of German Marsch .
Americanized form of Slovenian Marš: unexplained. Compare Mars 7.
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