Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Merrill was born on 4 June 1835, in Downham, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Merrell, was 55 and her mother, Mary Gill, was 39. She married Abraham Hoagland on 22 April 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 15 February 1912, in Bedford, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Saint Pauls Reformed Church Cemetery, Cessna, Bedford Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- R M Hammond in household of Hammond, "United States Census, 1900"
- Rebecca Merril, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Nellie M. Hammond, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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