Brief Life History of Alexander May
When Alexander May Shannon was born on 7 May 1839, in Washington, Arkansas, United States, his father, Granville Billingsley Shannon, was 38 and his mother, Unity Williams, was 29. He married Clara Viola Scott on 21 February 1872, in Galveston, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Vineyard Township, Washington, Arkansas, United States in 1850. He died on 28 October 1906, in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Trinity Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States.
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- A M Shannon, "United States Census, 1900"
- Alex M. Shannon, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Alexander May Shannon, "Find A Grave Index"
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1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Name Meaning
Irish:
shortened form of Shanahan .
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanáin ‘descendant of Seanán’, a personal name based on a pet form of seán ‘old’. This Irish surname became established in Scotland in the 14th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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