When Mary Jane Whitmer was born on 20 October 1816, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, her father, Valentine "Felty" Whitmer, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Scott, was 30. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and South Carrollton, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States in 1870. She died on 23 November 1887, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Scott Cemetery, Bremen, Logan, Kentucky, United States.
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The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
English: variant of Whitmore .
Americanized form of German Wittmeyer or of Wittmer .
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