Brief Life History of Phoebe
When Phoebe Houston was born on 4 June 1804, in Acworth, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Samuel Houston, was 34 and her mother, Phebe Mayo, was 22. She married Alvah Alexander on 7 May 1822, in Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 2 November 1861, in East Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Phebe Alexander in household of Alvah Alexander, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Phoebe Houston - Published information: birth: 4 June 1804; Acworth, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States
- Phebe Houston, "New Hampshire, Marriages, 1720-1920"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the barony of Houston (Renfrewshire), from the genitive case of the personal name Hugh + Middle English, Older Scots ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’). The landlord in question was a certain Hugo de Paduinan, who held the place c. 1160. The Scottish surname is also common in Ulster.
Irish: variant of McCutcheon from Mac Uisdein or Mac Uistein.
History: In 1836 the newly founded city of Houston, TX, was named in honor of Sam Houston (1793–1863), soldier and statesman. As commander in chief of the Texan army he achieved Texas independence from Mexico by routing the army of the Mexican general Santa Anna. His ancestors were Ulster Scots who had emigrated to Philadelphia, PA, in the 18th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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