Brief Life History of Patsy
When Patsy Elston was born in 1836, in Henry, Kentucky, United States, her father, Joel Brooke Elston, was 42 and her mother, Elizabeth Edrington, was 31.
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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.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Name Meaning
habitational name from any of several places called Elston (in Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, and Wiltshire). Elston in Lancashire comes from the Old English female personal name Æthelsige (composed of the elements athel ‘noble’ + sige ‘victory’) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’. Elston in Nottinghamshire is named with the Old Norse personal name Eiláfr (meaning ‘everlasting’) + tūn ‘settlement’, and Elston in Wiltshire is so named from Elias Giffard, holder of the manor in the 12th century.
from the Middle English personal name Elstan (Old English Ealdstān ‘old’ + ‘stone’ or Ealhstān ‘shrine, temple’ + ‘stone’). Compare Alston .
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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