When Chloe Gold was born on 22 March 1835, in New York City, New York, United States, her father, Mansel Gold, was 27 and her mother, Cynthia Wilcox, was 18. She married Willard Jonas Blighton on 15 August 1857, in Dane, Dane, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Madison Township, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1910. She died on 17 November 1920, in Union Township, Madison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Jordan Cemetery, West Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1843: Keokuk, Iowa Territory, United States 1843: Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Polk, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Polk, Iowa, United States [Spreads into Polk and Warren counties]
Minnesota is the 32nd state.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Emanuel, Meyer, Mayer, Hyman, Ari, Avram, Mendel, Moshe, Shraga, Aviva.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Gold, Yiddish gold ‘gold’. In North America it is often a shortened form of one of the many compound artificial names of which Gold is the first element.
English and German: from Middle English go(u)ld, or Old English and Old High German gold ‘gold’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in gold, i.e. a refiner, jeweler, or gilder, or as a nickname for someone who either had many gold possessions or bright yellow hair.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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