When Samuel Farlow was born on 5 March 1810, in Sophia, Randolph, North Carolina, United States, his father, Isaac Farlow, was 42 and his mother, Mary Holaday, was 31. He married Nancy Ann Hill on 25 October 1839, in Marlborough MM, Randolph, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Back Creek MM, Randolph, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died on 25 February 1897, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Sophia, Randolph, North Carolina, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
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: habitational name from a place in Shropshire, so named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + hlāw ‘hill, tumulus’. This surname may have become confused with Farley .
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