When William Frazier Shanklin was born on 28 June 1816, in Monroe, Virginia, United States, his father, Robert Shanklin, was 38 and his mother, Mary Polly Sharkey, was 37. He married Mary J McClaugherty on 23 August 1849, in Giles, Virginia, United States. He lived in Pocahontas, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Justice Precinct 1, Guadalupe, Texas, United States in 1870. He died on 2 December 1889, in Prairie Lea, Caldwell, Texas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Prairie Lea, Caldwell, Texas, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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.
Probably Scottish: variant of Shankland .
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