When Ann Isabelle Whitman was born on 14 September 1832, in Manchester, Guysborough, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Ira Atwater Whitman, was 27 and her mother, Alice Elsie Ross, was 30. She married John Lyle about 1854, in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871. She died on 3 January 1895, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (southern): from the Middle English personal name Whytman (Old English Hwītmann, from hwīt ‘white’ + mann ‘man’). Compare White 1 and also Wightman , with which this surname was probably confused.
History: John Whitman settled in Weymouth, MA, c. 1638. The poet Walt Whitman (1819–92) was descended from Joseph Whitman, who had settled in Stratford, CT, from England around 1660.
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