Brief Life History of Charles L.
When Charles L. Thurston was born on 23 February 1833, in Granville, Granville Township, Licking, Ohio, United States, his father, Peter Thurston Jr., was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Jackson, was 31. He married Joannah Dilley on 27 November 1854, in Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Minnesota, United States in 1870 and Garden City Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States for about 5 years. He died on 14 February 1893, in Tracy, Lyon, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Garden City Township, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States.
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- Charles Thurston, "Minnesota State Census, 1875"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles L. Thurston - Cemetery record or headstone: birth-name: Charles Thurston
- Charles Thurston, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1836
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1849: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Name Meaning
English (mainly East Anglia):
from the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan, Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn, Thorsten, Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen ).
habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor ) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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