Brief Life History of Maria
When Maria Fader was born in 1835, in Chester, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, John Christian Fader, was 29 and her mother, Maria Gorman, was 26. She married Frederic George Strong on 1 January 1859, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. She died in 1885, in Gloucester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 50.
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- Maria Strong in household of Frederic G Strong, "United States Census, 1860"
- Maria Fader, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Maria Fader in entry for Charles E. Kelley and Seddie K. Strong, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
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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
German: possibly a nickname from Old High German (or modern Low German) fader ‘father’, or alternatively an occupational name for a carpenter who fashioned roof beams, from pfate ‘beam, timber’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Feder .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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