When Amy Fitz Randolph was born on 26 September 1824, in Salem, Harrison, West Virginia, United States, her father, Samuel Fitz Randolph, was 25 and her mother, Zipporah B. Davis, was 28. She married John W. Davis on 2 May 1844, in Logan, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Quincy, Miami Township, Logan, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Franklin Election Precinct, Richardson, Nebraska, United States in 1860. She died on 21 April 1865, in Salem, Harrison, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Shubert, Richardson, Nebraska, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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.
English: from Anglo-Norman French fi(t)z ‘son’ (from Latin filius), used originally to distinguish a son from a father bearing the same personal name and then conventionalized as a hereditary surname, or short for a surname of which fiz ‘son’ was the first element, for example Fitzhenry and Fitzroy .
Altered form of English Fitch .
German: from a vernacular pet form of the personal name Vinzenz (see Vincent ) or Vitus (see Vito , compare Veit ). Compare also Fietz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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