Brief Life History of Lydia
When Lydia Downer was born on 12 July 1810, in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States, her father, Simon Downer, was 21 and her mother, Hulda Briggs, was 18. She married Samuel Gates III on 4 February 1830, in Livonia, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Slaterville, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 11 October 1896, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Lyndia Gates, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lydia Downer - birth-name: Lydia Downer
- Lydia Downer Gates, "BillionGraves Index"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Isle of Wight, Hampshire, and Sussex): topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or down, from Middle English douner, a derivative of Middle English doun (Old English dūn) ‘hill’ + -er. It is synonymous with atte Doune (see Down ) and is a type of formation especially common in Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire.
English: in the north-West Midlands perhaps a variant of Downward with shortening of the final syllable to -er, a habitational name probably from Downwood (Herefordshire) and perhaps also Dunwood (Staffordshire), with -wood re-etymologized as -ward and occasionally shortened to -ard. See also Downard .
Irish (Tipperary): variant of Dooner 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Samuel Gates
SAMUEL GATES *Written by Shari H. Franke. Samuel is her 3rd Great-Grandfather* Samuel was born March 14, 1804 in Catharine, Tioga, New York. He died August 7, 1877 in Lynne (now Ogden, at Five …
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