Brief Life History of Drusilla
When Drusilla Shadden was born on 15 May 1833, in Lee Creek, Crawford, Arkansas, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Shadden, was 24 and her mother, Martha Elizabeth Sumner, was 18. She married John Hames in 1846, in Monterey, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 16 September 1882, in Soquel, Santa Cruz, California, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Soquel Cemetery, Soquel, Santa Cruz, California, United States.
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- Sucilla Hames in household of John Hames, "United States Census, 1870"
- Drusilla Shadden Hames, "Find A Grave Index"
- Drucella McFadden in entry for Lucretia Langley, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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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.
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of French Chaudoin .
Possibly also Scottish: variant of Shedden .
History: At least some of the American bearers of the surname Shadden are descendants of François Chaudoin, a Huguenot from France (see Chaudoin ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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