When Delilah Emaline Bennett Andrews was born on 6 May 1819, in Marion, Williamson, Illinois, United States, her father, Archibald Andrews, was 48 and her mother, Frances Bennett, was 35. She married Andrew Jackson Allen on 29 April 1841, in Calloway, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 15 December 1869, in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Draper City Cemetery, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
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: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
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Possible Related NamesBirth: May 6, 1819 Death: Dec. 15, 1869 Family links: Spouse: Andrew Jackson Allen (1818 - 1884)* Children: Pernecy Frances Allen Williams (1842 - 1895)* Margaret Mary Jane Allen Bagley …
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