When Eliza Dana was born on 14 April 1813, in Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States, her father, Francis Dana, was 41 and her mother, Hulda Root, was 41. She married William Gibbs on 16 April 1844, in Lockport, Niagara, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1857 and lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States in 1880. In 1880, at the age of 67, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 5 February 1900, in Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Deseret City Cemetery, Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
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.
Probably an altered form of English Dawney or Dawnay (see Dawn ), cognates of French Daunay (see Donais ).
Czech and Slovak (Daňa); Polish and Hungarian: from a short form of the personal name Daniel (Hungarian Dániel), or perhaps from a short form of any of various Slavic compound personal names formed with the element dan ‘given’, for example Czech Danomír and Bohdan, Polish Bogdan .
Albanian: nickname or metonymic occupational name from danë (definite form dana) ‘pincers’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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