Brief Life History of Marcia Whiton
When Marcia Whiton Cogswell was born on 5 July 1833, in Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, her father, Joshua Cogswell, was 63 and her mother, Betsey Cross, was 59. She died from 1834 to 1927.
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Family Time Line
Joshua Cogswell
1770–
Betsey Cross
1774–1899
John B Cogswell
1829–1919
Marcia Whiton Cogswell
1833–1927
Sources (3)
- Marcia Whiton Cogswell, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Marcia Whiton Cogswell, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Marcia Whiton Cogswell, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
Parents and Siblings
1770– Male
1774–1899 Female
Siblings (2)
1829–1919 Male
1833–1927 Female
World Events (3)
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 3
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
Age 13
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
Age 15
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Great and Little Coxwell in Oxfordshire, named with an Old English personal name Cocc + Old English wella ‘spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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