When Sophronia Wells was born on 27 March 1834, in Ohio, United States, her father, Warner Kelob Wells, was 30 and her mother, Pollina “Polly” Rima, was 27. She married Carson Wicks on 27 March 1856, in Cadiz, Green, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Douglas, Kansas, United States for about 20 years and Monmouth Township, Shawnee, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 17 December 1911, in Clinton Township, Douglas, Kansas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Clinton, Douglas, Kansas, United States.
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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.
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Douglas, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Douglas, Kansas, United States
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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