When Elmira Pond was born on 14 February 1811, in Barlow Township, Washington, Ohio, United States, her father, Thaddeus Pond, was 40 and her mother, Louisa Miner, was 34. She married Henry William Miller on 19 June 1831, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1852 and lived in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860 and St. George, Washington, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 3 September 1904, in Syracuse, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Farmington City Cemetery, Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
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.
English (mainly southern): topographic name for someone who lived by a pond or lake, from Middle English ponde ‘pond, artificial or natural pool’, denoting someone who lived or worked by such a feature.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesI, Elmira Pond Miller, will relate what I have heard and seen. I was at my daughter's house in Hyrum, Cache County, Utah in the early part of May, 1889. I had laid down on the bed, as it was begin …
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