Brief Life History of David W.
When David W. Cliatt was born in 1836, in Georgia, United States, his father, James Mathews Cliatt, was 36 and his mother, Eliza A. Kinder, was 23. He died on 5 March 1875, in Lincoln, Georgia, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Lincoln, Georgia, United States.
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- David Eliott in household of James Eliott, "United States Census, 1850"
- David W Cliatt, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1838 · Orders No. 25 Removes Cherokees
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Name Meaning
Altered form of Welsh Clwyd (see Cluett ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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