When Mary Caroline Angel was born on 25 May 1843, in Manchester, Coffee, Tennessee, United States, her father, Lawrence Washington Angel, was 45 and her mother, Nancy Bledsoe, was 45. She married James Coffee Oldfield on 24 July 1858, in Manchester, Coffee, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 6 September 1912, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Miguel, Carlos, Juan, Manuel, Jorge, Luis, Arturo, Roberto, Jesus, Raul, Salvador.
Spanish (Ángel) and Slovenian: from local equivalents of the Latin personal name Angelus, from angelus, Greek angelos ‘messenger, angel’. In early Christian folk belief, angels were so named because they were considered to be messengers sent from God. Compare Spanish Del Angel .
English (of Norman origin): from Middle English angel ‘angel’, from Old French angele, from Latin angelus (see above), perhaps applied as a nickname to someone of angelic temperament or appearance or for someone who played the part of an angel in a pageant. In North America, this surname may also be an altered form of any of several cognate European surnames, for example Italian Angelo , Romanian Anghel , Czech Anděl, or Hungarian Angyal.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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