When John Myers Atterbury was born on 30 September 1833, in Monroe City, Monroe, Missouri, United States, his father, Ashford Atterbury, was 40 and his mother, Sarah Francis Myers, was 25. He married Eliza Jane Snidow in March 1852, in Monroe Township, Andrew, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Monroe Township, Monroe, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Ross Township, Cherokee, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 10 April 1902, in Stone, Missouri, United States, at the age of 68.
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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: 1851: Stone, Missouri, United States
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
English: variant of Atterberry and Atteberry .
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