Brief Life History of Seth Kirkland
When Seth Kirkland Blair was born on 3 December 1831, in Clinton, Kirkland, Oneida, New York, United States, his father, Zina Blair, was 32 and his mother, Marenda Mitchell, was 25. He married Jane Thankful Foote on 14 September 1859, in Clinton, Kirkland, Oneida, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in New York, United States in 1870 and Kirkland, Oneida, New York, United States in 1880. He died on 13 October 1905, in Clinton, New York, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Clinton, Kirkland, Oneida, New York, United States.
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- Seth R Blair, "United States Census, 1870"
- Seth K Blair, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
- Seth K Blair, "United States Census, 1860"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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