When Helen Swartwout was born in 1834, in Saratoga, New York, United States, her father, Henry Swartwout, was 29 and her mother, Ann Van Hyning, was 20. She married Ira Swan Banta on 18 February 1854, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Malta, Malta, Saratoga, New York, United States in 1850.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Dutch: archaic variant of Swartwolt, from swart ‘black’ + wout ‘forest, wood’. The surname Swartwolt is very rare in the Netherlands and the variant Swartwout is no longer found there. In North America, the surname Swartwout may also be a Dutch translation of the German cognate Schwarzwald. Compare Swarthout , Swartout , and Swartwood .
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