When Henry Tincher was born about 1836, in Kentucky, United States, his father, William Hamilton Tincher, was 38 and his mother, Matilda Bowman, was 29. He married Angeline Carpenter on 21 February 1855, in Laurel, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Jackson, Kentucky, United States in 1860. He died before 1880.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Altered form of German Tüncher, a spelling probably influenced by a dialect pronunciation of the surname, which is an occupational name for a whitewasher or painter, Middle High German tüncher.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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