Brief Life History of Anna Maria
When Anna Maria Wall was born on 25 January 1833, in Brucken, Kirchheim, Württemberg, Germany, her father, Johann Georg Wall, was 32 and her mother, Anna Barbara Reichle, was 28. She had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with Johan Georg Gleich. She lived in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died on 21 November 1882, at the age of 49, and was buried in Green Tree, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mary Gleich in household of George Gleich, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Wall - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Mary Wall
- Anna Maria Wall, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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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.
1852 · The Book of Mormon Published in German
On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stone-built wall, e.g. one used to fortify a town or to keep back the encroachment of the sea (Middle English wall ‘wall’, Old English wall, weall, from Latin vallum ‘rampart, palisade’), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Wall (Staffordshire).
English (West Midlands): topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, northern Middle English wall(e) (Old English (Mercian) wæll(a); compare Well ).
Irish (of Norman origin): Anglicized form of de Valle (Gaelicized form de Bhál), the name of a Norman family established in Munster and Connacht.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Wall Family Comes to America
John Wall and Andy (Andrew) Wall (sons of John George Wall and Anna Barbara Reichle Wall) were in America and went back to Germany for a visit. George Wall was drafted and did not want to go into the …
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