Brief Life History of Rhoda
When Rhoda Welker was born in 1833, in Jackson Township, Knox, Ohio, United States, her father, David Welker, was 23 and her mother, Margaret Jane Darling, was 19. She married James Dixon on 1 February 1853, in Fulton, Whiteside, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hickory Township, Schuyler, Illinois, United States for about 60 years and Bluff City, Fayette, Illinois, United States in 1924. She died on 20 September 1924, in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Astoria, Fulton, Illinois, United States.
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- Roda Dickson in household of James Dickson, "United States Census, 1860"
- Rhoda Workman, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Rhoda Dixon Or Welker, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"
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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.
1837
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Fulton, Illinois, United States
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Name Meaning
German: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle High German, Middle Low German walker, welker ‘fuller’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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