When Catherine McEachern was born in 1805, in Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Neill McEachern, was 56 and her mother, Christian McEachern, was 46. She married Stephen Isham Butler about 1827, in Marion, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Marion, Marion, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years and Carmichael Township, Marion, South Carolina, United States in 1870.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.
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.
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eichthigheirn ‘son of Eichthighearn’, a personal name from each ‘horse’ + tighearna ‘lord’.
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