When Dorathea Durfee was born on 8 March 1816, in Lenox, Madison, New York, United States, her father, Edmund Durfee, was 27 and her mother, Magdalena Pickle, was 27. She married David Garner Jr on 18 October 1842, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 14 June 1885, in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Illinois is the 21st state.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
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.
Altered form of French Durfé: habitational name, with fused preposition d(e) ‘from’, for someone from Urfé in Loire. The surname Durfé is virtually non-existing in France.
History: The name was brought to England by Huguenot refugees in the 16th century. Thomas Durfee, the ancestor of the Durfee family in America, was born in 1643 and came to Providence, RI, in 1660.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesOn the way west, a band of Indians attacked the wagon train and Dolly Durfee Garner stood on the tongue of the wagon and talked in tongues. Those warriors sat on the ground and listened. When she fini …
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