Brief Life History of Joseph Leland
When Joseph Leland Norcross was born on 6 December 1834, in Cabot, Washington, Vermont, United States, his father, James Richmond Norcross, was 31 and his mother, Eleanor Blanchard, was 33. He married Mary L. Ham on 13 May 1861, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 14 November 1898, in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Joseph L Norcross, "United States Census, 1880"
- Joseph Leland Norcross, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Joseph L Norcross, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Norcross in Carleton, Lancashire. The placename derives from Middle English north ‘northern, north’ + cros ‘cross’ (Old English north, Old Norse kross, late Old English cros).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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