Brief Life History of Paralee Almiree
When Paralee Almiree Drake was born on 25 January 1835, in Franklin, Alabama, United States, her father, William Michael Drake, was 45 and her mother, Elizabeth Leftwich, was 36. She married William David Arthur Booker on 2 September 1852, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Alabama, United States in 1870. She died in 1880, in Taylor Township, Nevada, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 45.
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- Paralee Booker in household of Wm D A Booker, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Parolee Almiree Drake - Government record: birth-name: Parolee Almiree Drake
- Paralee Drake in entry for Etna Rowland, "Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960"
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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.
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English drake, either ‘drake, male duck’ (compare Duck ) or ‘dragon’ (Old English draca ‘snake, dragon’ or the cognate Old Norse draki), including an emblematic dragon on a flag (compare Dragon ). Both the Old English and the Old Norse forms are from Latin draco ‘snake, monster’; its sense as a nickname is unclear but it may have had the sense ‘standard bearer’. The name was taken to Ireland in the 13th century and reinforced by later English settlers in the 17th century.
German: from Low German drake ‘dragon’, familiar as image on signboards, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn with such signboard.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized and Flemish, of Draak, a cognate of 2 above, from draak (Middle Dutch drake) ‘dragon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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