When Emmaline Augusta Zahm was born on 6 July 1834, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Mathias Zahm, was 44 and her mother, Eva Marie Myers, was 40. She lived in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years.
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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.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
German: nickname from Middle High German zam ‘tame’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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