Brief Life History of James Robinson
When James Robinson Keefover was born on 27 August 1810, in Nicholson Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Philip Kefauver, was 21 and his mother, Ophelia Elizabeth Luckey, was 20. He married Susannah Rumble in 1831, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Moscow Township, Muscatine, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Wilton Township, Muscatine, Iowa, United States in 1900. He died on 1 October 1904, in Wilton, Muscatine, Iowa, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilton, Muscatine, Iowa, United States.
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- James Keefover, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
- James Keefover, "Find A Grave Index"
- Keefover in entry for James Keefover, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
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Americanized form of South German Kiefhaber .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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