When Nancy Catharine Mitchell was born on 7 May 1833, in Union, Union, South Carolina, United States, her father, Elias Mitchell, Jr., was 47 and her mother, Hannah Smith, was 44. She died on 1 September 1854, at the age of 21, and was buried in Fawcett Cemetery, Union, South Carolina, United States.
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On August 31, 1835, in Charleston, South Carolina an angry mob takes control over the U-S mail and burns it in public.
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.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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