When George C. Nicholson was born on 17 November 1835, in Cherokee, Georgia, United States, his father, John William Nicholson, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Allred, was 25. He married Minerva Malinda Revis about 1855. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and Ball Ground, Cherokee, Georgia, United States for about 20 years. His occupation is listed as farm laborer in Canton, Cherokee, Georgia, United States. He died on 20 June 1904, in Cherokee, Georgia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Nelson, Cherokee, Georgia, 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.
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
English (northern) and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Nic(h)olas or the vernacular form Nic(h)ol + son; see Nichol , Nicholas . In Scotland the name was sometimes substituted for McNichol .
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Nicolaisen or Nikolaisen , or of the Swedish cognate Niklasson, patronymics from equivalents of the personal name Nicholas .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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