Brief Life History of Violetta R.
When Violetta R. Aughey was born on 31 July 1834, in New York, United States, her father, David Aughey, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Hill, was 29. She married Robert Kizer Knight on 8 June 1854, in Shelby, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Ada, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. She died on 22 September 1915, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Caddo, Bryan, Oklahoma, United States.
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- V. R. Knight in household of R. K. Knight, "United States Census, 1880"
- V R Aughey, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Violet Knight, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Irish: see Haughey .
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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