When Nancy Jane Payton was born on 25 June 1832, in Elizabeth, Posey Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States, her father, Nimrod Payton, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Lemmon, was 33. She married Arthur James Cunningham on 18 November 1852, in Harrison, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 5 February 1859, in Lanesville, Franklin Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Old Union Cemetery, Lanesville, Franklin Township, Harrison, Indiana, 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.
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The State of Indiana was near bankruptcy in 1841 due to the inability to repay interest incurred for the Massive Internal Improvement Act. The state liquidated much of its public works. Many of the projects were handed over to the state’s creditors as a way to reduce debt. Only two of the eight proposed infrastructure projects were completed by the creditors.
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from Peyton in Ramsholt (Suffolk), derived from the Old English personal name Pǣga + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Irish (mainly County Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Peatáin ‘descendant of Peatán’, a pet form of the personal name Pádraig (see Patrick ). Outside County Donegal, the name is apparently mainly of English origin (see 1 above).
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