Brief Life History of Fernando Cortez
When Fernando Cortez Humphries was born on 10 October 1833, in Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Humphreys, was 46 and his mother, Rachel Spencer, was 46. He married Mary Jane McGrew on 13 September 1855, in Knox, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Benton Township, McCook, South Dakota, United States in 1900. He died on 22 January 1908, in Spencer, McCook, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Spencer Cemetery, McCook, South Dakota, United States.
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- Fernando Humphery, "United States Census, 1870"
- Cortes Humphreys, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Fernando Cortez Humphries, "South Dakota, Veteran Graves Registration Records, 1940-1941"
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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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): variant of Humphrey , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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