When Martha I Newsome was born in May 1832, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Jesse Newsom, was 36 and her mother, Mary Barnes, was 22. She married George Washington Burnett in 1855. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Beat 4, Holmes, Mississippi, United States in 1880 and Township 2, Choctaw Nation Reservation, Pushmataha, Oklahoma, United States in 1900.
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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.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (Yorkshire): from one or more of the many north-country places of this name in Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire. The placenames derive from Old English nīwe ‘new’ + hūs ‘house’ (dative plural hūsum); (æt thǣm) nīwehūsum ‘(at the) new houses’.
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