When Salome Zent was born in March 1835, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, her father, Philip Jacob Zent, was 45 and her mother, Catharina Uebelhoer, was 41. She married Joseph Kuerst on 15 May 1856, in Swormville, Amherst, Erie, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Erie, New York, United States in 1860 and Cheektowaga, Erie, New York, United States in 1865. She died on 27 June 1907, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
German: unexplained. At least in part it originates from the former German settlements in Bessarabia in southern Russia (now in Ukraine) and may be an altered form of an unidentified German (reportedly Alsatian) surname.
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