When Asel Amos was born on 19 June 1820, in Monongalia, Virginia, United States, his father, Rev George Monroe Amos, was 25 and his mother, Idena Edna Hawkins, was 26. He married Annary Kendall on 25 June 1846, in Marion, Virginia, United States. He lived in District 5, Mason, Virginia, United States in 1860 and West Virginia, United States in 1870. He died in October 1878, in Pennsboro, Ritchie, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in EUB Cemetery, Pennsboro, Ritchie, Virginia, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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.
English and Scottish: variant of Amis , assimilated in spelling to the Biblical name (see 2 below). It occurs chiefly in southeastern England.
Jewish, German, English, Scottish, and Welsh: from the Hebrew personal name Amos, of uncertain origin, in some traditions connected with the Hebrew verb amos ‘to carry’, and assigned the meaning ‘borne by God’. This was the name of a Biblical prophet of the 8th century BC , whose oracles are recorded in the Book of Amos. This was one of the Biblical names taken up by Puritans and Nonconformists in the 16th–17th centuries, too late to have had much influence on surname formationm in Britain, except in Wales.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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