When Rebecca Shaffer was born on 19 February 1813, in Ohio, United States, her father, James Shaffer, was 24 and her mother, Margaret Brooks, was 23. She married John Franklin Berfield in 1831, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 13 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 13 April 1893, in Wharton Township, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Grove Township, Cameron, Pennsylvania, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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.
Americanized form of German Schäffer (see Schaffer 2), Schaffer 1, or Schäfer (see Schaefer ).
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