When Anna Margrötha Find was born on 3 March 1834, in Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, her father, Frederich Ernst Findt, was 36 and her mother, Sophia Pfeffer, was 32. She married August Wilhelm Voelkel on 22 March 1852, in Austin, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Industry, Austin, Texas, United States in 1860. She died on 10 August 1913, in Yoakum, DeWitt, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Yoakum, DeWitt, Texas, 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: 1837: Austin, Republic of Texas 1845: Austin, Texas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Myer.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Pfund ‘pound’, either a nickname or one of the names chosen at random from vocabulary words in the 18th and 19th centuries by government officials at the time when surnames became compulsory.
Altered form of German Pfund .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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