Brief Life History of Elvira D.
When Elvira D. Southwick was born on 25 November 1834, in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Seth Southwick Jr., was 36 and her mother, Deborah Willcox, was 39. She married Edmund Kempton on 5 September 1861. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years and Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 30 years. She died on 23 October 1914, in Wales, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Blackstone Cemetery, Blackstone, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Elvira Kempton in household of Edmund Kempton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Alvira Southwick, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Elvira D. Southwick, "Rhode Island Town Marriages Index, 1639-1916"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Southwick, including those in Durham, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Sussex, and Wiltshire, named with Old English sūth ‘south, southern’ + wīc ‘dwelling, specialized farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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