Brief Life History of Henry Dexter
When Henry Dexter Graves was born on 26 May 1835, in Guilford, Windham, Vermont, United States, his father, Dexter Hubbard Graves, was 56 and his mother, Mary Holten Robbins, was 36. He married Mary Shannon on 28 December 1853, in New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States in 1860. He died on 25 November 1898, in Stillwater, Payne, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Perkins, Payne, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Henry D Graves in household of Willard Graves, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Henry Dexter Graves - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Graves
- H D Graves, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (northern and eastern England): variant of Grave , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: alternatively, a variant of Greaves or Grieves .
Altered form of German Greff , with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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