Brief Life History of Pleasant Robinson
When Pleasant Robinson Capel was born on 9 January 1835, in North Carolina, United States, his father, William Coppedge Capel Sr., was 53 and his mother, Anna Jane Baldwin, was 45. He married Martha A. Bostick on 28 November 1854, in Richmond, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Steeles Township, Richmond, North Carolina, United States in 1860. He died on 4 February 1900, in Richmond, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Covington, Richmond, North Carolina, United States.
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- Pleasant Chapell, "United States Census, 1850"
- Pleasant R Capel, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Pleasant Robinson Capel, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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 Capell .
French: regional variant of Chapel , from a dialect diminutive of Old French chape ‘hooded cloak, cape, hood’, or ‘hat’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cloaks or hats, or a nickname for a habitual wearer of a distinctive cloak or hat.
Catalan: old variant or Castilianized form of Capell ‘hat, hood’, a cognate of 2 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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