Brief Life History of Delila
Delila Walden was born in 1833, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. She married Joseph Baird on 29 December 1849, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1860.
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- Delilah Galer in household of Aaron Galer, "United States Census, 1860"
- Delila Waldon, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Delilah Walden in entry for Chas. G. Blue and Susan A. Fike Or Fishe Or Gales, "Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992"
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1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
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.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Kings Walden and Saint Pauls Walden (Hertfordshire), Saffron Waldon (Essex), Waldon in Milton Damerel (Devon), and Walden (North Yorkshire). The placenames derives from Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala) + denu ‘valley’.
German: patronymic from Wald 3.
Americanized form of Norwegian Wolden or Volden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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