When Elizabeth H. McAllister was born on 30 March 1863, in Virginia, United States, her father, Albert S. McAllister, was 38 and her mother, Judith Grimsley, was 37. She married Robert Davis Twyman on 22 January 1885, in Madison, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Robertson District, Madison, Virginia, United States for about 70 years. She died on 21 October 1941, in Syria, Madison, Virginia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Madison, Madison, Virginia, United States.
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Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
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Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Alasdair ‘son of Alasdair’, the Gaelic form of the personal name Alexander .
History: MacAlister is the name of a Scottish Highland clan claiming descent from Alasdair Mòr Mac Dòmhnaill, a younger son of Domhnall mac Raghnaill, founder of Clan Donald (see McDonald ).
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