Brief Life History of Keziah Donnell
When Keziah Donnell Holladay was born on 12 October 1834, in Marion, Alabama, United States, her father, John Holladay, was 36 and her mother, Catherine Beasley Higgins, was 36. She married Henry Green Boyle on 6 September 1849, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 29 November 1853, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in San Bernardino, California, United States.
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- Keziah Holliday in household of John Holliday, "United States Census, 1850"
- Newspaper: Deseret News, 16 March 1854, "DIED" (Death Notice of Leonora and Keziah Holladay)
- Keziah D Holaday in entry for William H Boyle, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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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.
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
Name Meaning
English (Kent): variant of Holliday .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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A Short History of the Life of John Holladay (1798-1862)
John Holladay was born on 10 March 1798, the son of Daniel Holladay Jr. and Keziah Rebecca Terry, in Camden, Kershaw, South Carolina. John's father, Daniel Holladay Jr. and grandfather Daniel Holladay …
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