When Jakob Kochersperger was born on 21 September 1834, in Birlenbach, Bas-Rhin, France, his father, Johann Martin Kochersperger II, was 52 and his mother, Barbara Hart, was 43. He married Elizabeth Hyde on 5 November 1857, in United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Old Forge, Webb, Herkimer, New York, United States in 1905 and Webb, Herkimer, New York, United States in 1905. He died on 15 April 1914, in Rome, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rome Cemetery, Rome, Oneida, New York, United States.
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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.
Incorporated as City in 1848
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Alsatian: habitational name for someone from either of two places in Alsace called Kochenberg: Dossenheim-Kochersberg and Wintzenheim-Kochersberg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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