When Margaret Haycraft was born about 1836, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States, her father, James W. Haycraft, was 45 and her mother, Mary Polly Maiden Rennie, was 35. She married Dorsey B. Stone on 20 April 1854, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 30 March 1923, in Leitchfield, Grayson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 88.
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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.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
English: topographic name for a dweller ‘(by the) hay croft’, from Middle English hai, hei ‘hay’ (Old English hēg) + croft ‘croft, field attached to a house, paddock’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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