When Martha Louise Birdwell was born on 25 September 1812, in Madison, Alabama, United States, her father, Moses Birdwell, was 42 and her mother, Mary Louise Marshall, was 40. She married James William Parkhill in 1828, in Blount, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hopkins, Texas, United States in 1850 and Justice Precinct 2, Collin, Texas, United States in 1870. She died on 6 April 1896, in Glen Rose, Somervell, Texas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Cox Bend Cemetery, Glen Rose, Somervell, Texas, United States.
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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.
Alabama became the twenty-second state admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819.
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: habitational name from a place in South Yorkshire named Birdwell, from Old English bridd ‘bird’ + wella ‘spring, stream’, or from Bridwell in Devon or Bridewell in Wiltshire, the first element of which may be an Old English word, brīd ‘surging’. The surname is now very rare in the British Isles.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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