When Elizabeth Ann Brockman was born on 26 July 1835, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas Samuel Brockman, was 24 and her mother, Jane Lois Ritchey, was 25. She married Alvin Charles Wells on 29 March 1855, in Brown, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Franklin Township, Bourbon, Kansas, United States in 1870 and Bourbon, Kansas, United States in 1875. She died on 4 May 1876, in Xenia, Bourbon, Kansas, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Boulware Cemetery, Mapleton, Bourbon, Kansas, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1839: Brown, Illinois, United States
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
The usual spelling of Elisabeth in English. It is recorded in the medieval period, but was made popular by being borne by Queen Elizabeth I of England ( 1533–1603 ). In the 20th century it again became extremely fashionable, partly because it was the name of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( 1900–2002 ), who in 1936 became Queen Elizabeth as the wife of King George VI, and after his death in 1952 achieved great public affection as Queen Mother for nearly half a century. Even more influentially, it is the name of her daughter Queen Elizabeth II ( b. 1926 ).
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