Brief Life History of Rachel
When Rachel Howe was born on 4 July 1833, in Slippery Rock, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Howe, was 69 and her mother, Elizabeth Betsy Armstrong, was 36. She married James McKinley in 1856, in Taylor Township, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Taylor Township, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 12 December 1909, in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Rachel Mc Kinly, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Rachel How - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Rachel How
- Rachael, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name pronounced to rhyme with hoe, who, or how, from Middle English hoʒe ‘spur of a hill, steep ridge, or slight rise’. Hoʒe comes from a late variant, hōge, of the dative case of the Old English root word, hōh, literally ‘heel (of a person) or hock (of an animal)’, a common placename element. The regular Old English dative singular, hō, is the source of the placenames Hoo and Hoe and the surname may also be habitational name from a placename consisting of this word, for example Hoe (Norfolk), Hoo (Kent), Hooe (Devon, Sussex), or either of two places called The Hoo in Great Gaddesden and Saint Paul's Walden (Hertfordshire). Hose (Leicestershire) comes from the plural form of the word (see Howes ). Howe may also be from Old Norse haugr ‘mound, hill’, for without other evidence, this cannot be distinguished from howe ‘spur of a hill’ and is certainly the origin of Howe (Norfolk) and Howe Hill in Kirkburn (East Yorkshire). See also Hough .
English: variant of Hugh , pronounced to rhyme with who or how.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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