When William Tincher was born in 1805, in Virginia, United States, his father, Samuel Tincher, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Rowland, was 29. He lived in Fayette, Virginia, United States in 1860.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
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.
Altered form of German Tüncher, a spelling probably influenced by a dialect pronunciation of the surname, which is an occupational name for a whitewasher or painter, Middle High German tüncher.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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