Brief Life History of Reuben
When Reuben Sherwood was born on 4 January 1832, in Rideau Township, Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario, Canada, his father, Rueben Sherwood, was 35 and his mother, Katherine McDonald, was 38. He married Cecelia Electa Knapp about 1846, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Locust Creek Township, Linn, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Anthony, Harper, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 27 October 1899, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States.
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- Reuben Sherwood, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ruben Sherwood - birth-name: Ruben Sherwood
- Ruben Sherwood, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1836
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Winnebago, Illinois, United States
1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called with Old English scīr + wudu ‘bright or clear (perhaps sparsely-grown) wood’. In Yorkshire the name usually refers to Sherwood (Hall) in Eggborough (Yorkshire), but some examples could alternatively derive from Sherwood (House) in Stainforth (Yorkshire) or from the Nottinghamshire forest name in 2 below. The Devon name is from Sherwood (Green) in Yarnscombe (Devon). These are well evidenced as medieval placenames, and there may be similar but unrecorded places that could account for the medieval surname in other counties such as East Yorkshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Sussex. Sherwood occurs in minor placenames in Berkshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, North Yorkshire, Sussex, and Wiltshire, but they are recorded only in modern times and in many cases will have been named from the surname or perhaps in imitation of 2 below. This name was established in Ireland in the 17th century. See also Sherrard .
English: habitational name from Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire (‘the shire wood’).
Americanized form of some Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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