When Evaline Bright was born on 18 October 1820, in Shelby, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Bright, was 25 and her mother, Eleanor Crabb Drane, was 18. She married John Ford King on 21 December 1836, in Henry, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Eminence, Henry, Kentucky, United States in 1870. She died on 19 June 1878, at the age of 57, and was buried in Eminence Cemetery, Eminence, Henry, Kentucky, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
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.
English: usually a nickname from Middle English bright ‘bright, good-looking, fresh-faced’ (Old English beorht ‘bright, shining’).
English: perhaps occasionally from an unrecorded Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Briht, Beorht, from a short form of any of several Old English personal names of which beorht was the first element, such as Beorhtrīc ‘bright’ + ‘powerful’. Compare Bert .
Americanized form of German Brecht .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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