When Hettie Ann Bruce was born on 10 December 1834, in Ladoga, Clark Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States, her father, Charles Polk Bruce, was 35 and her mother, Nancy Paris Harrison, was 20. She married David Cook Shaver on 31 July 1851, in Montgomery, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Amity Township, Page, Iowa, United States in 1900 and New York City, New York, United States in 1920. She died on 4 February 1923, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in College Springs, Page, Iowa, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Montgomery, Indiana, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Normandy, probably from Brix (La Manche).
Altered form of French Brousse .
History: The son of the Domesday baron, a friend of David I of Scotland, was granted by him the Lordship of Annandale in 1124, and his second son Robert became the founder of the Scottish house of Bruce. — This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its original form Brousse in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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