Brief Life History of Mary Frances
When Mary Frances Craft was born in 1834, in Elbert, Georgia, United States, her father, Willis Craft, was 25 and her mother, Martha Terrell Franklin, was 25. She married Robert C. C. Roebuck on 6 June 1850, in Elbert, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Georgia, United States in 1870. She died in 1878, in Cleveland Township, Clay, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Rison, Cleveland, Arkansas, United States.
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- M F Roebuck in household of W Craft, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary F. Craft, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Mary F Craft Roebuck, "Find A Grave Index"
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1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
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.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English craft ‘skillful, clever, learned’.
English: habitational name from Croft in Leicestershire. See also Croft .
Americanized form of German, Danish, Swedish, or Jewish Kraft . See also Croft .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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