Brief Life History of Edmond Alexander
When Private Edmond Alexander Dockery was born about 1834, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Balaam Dockery, was 43 and his mother, Mary White, was 46. He married Mahala J Proffitt on 2 August 1855, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1862. He died before 1880, in Yancey, North Carolina, United States.
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- Edmon A Docery, "United States Census, 1860"
- Alexe Dockery, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Alex Dockery in entry for Mollie Grindstaff, "North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930"
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World Events (7)
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1853 · First State Fair
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Dockray , a habitational name from any of several places in Cumbria called Dockray, from Middle English dokke (Old English docce) ‘docks or sorrel’ + Middle English wra (Old Norse vrá) ‘nook’, meaning ‘nook where dock grows’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochraidh ‘descendant of Dochradh’, a personal name that is a variant of Dochartach (see Doherty ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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