When Mary Elizabeth Huggins was born on 4 August 1833, in New York, United States, her father, Enoch Huggins, was 33 and her mother, Irena Nevens, was 29. She married Albert Clark on 3 July 1856, in Peoria, Illinois, United States. She lived in Medina Township, Peoria, Illinois, United States in 1860. She died on 27 April 1866, at the age of 32, and was buried in Mount Hawley Cemetery, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States.
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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.
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (East Anglia): from the Middle English personal name Hugin, an Old French diminutive of Hugh , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Occasionally the name may also arise from Middle English Huggen, a West Midlands dialect genitive form of the Middle English personal name Hugg (see Hug ), synonymous with Hughes , which has the more common -s genitival suffix.
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