When William Marion Buchanan was born on 6 October 1832, in Burke, North Carolina, United States, his father, Leonard L Buchanan, was 22 and his mother, Elizabeth Tate, was 22. He married Sophia Hughes on 29 November 1852, in Yancey, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Little Rock Creek, Mitchell, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and Mitchell, North Carolina, United States in 1900. He died on 28 November 1909, in Yancey, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Buchanan Cemetery, Carpenter Bottom, Avery, North Carolina, 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.
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The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.
Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin, see Bohannon .
History: This is the name of a Scottish clan associated with lands on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond and in the Lennox. — The name Buchanan was brought independently to North America from Scotland by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. George Buchanan came to MD in 1698. — James Buchanan (1791–1868), 15th President of the US (1857–61), was born near Mercersburg, PA, the son of a successful land speculator and store keeper, who had emigrated to PA from Scotland in 1783.
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