Brief Life History of Orphela R
When Orphela R Thayer was born on 28 November 1834, in Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States, her father, John Thayer, was 43 and her mother, Sally Amelia Tower, was 39. She died in 1848, at the age of 14.
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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.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucestershire and Somerset): from Middle English the eir ‘the heir’ with fused definite article. See Ayer .
History: Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), military engineer, an early superintendant of the US Military Academy at West Point, was born in Braintree, MA, into a family of English origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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