Brief Life History of Kepple Elias
When Kepple Elias Disney was born on 2 November 1832, in Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland, his father, Arundel Elias Disney, was 31 and his mother, Maria Swan, was 19. He married Mary Jane Richardson on 18 March 1858, in Huron, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Huron, Ontario, Canada in 1861 and Morris Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada in 1871. He died on 24 May 1891, in Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, United States.
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- Cassel Disney, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Kepple Disney, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
- Kepple Disney, "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.
1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name with fused French preposition d(e), for someone from Isigny in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Isinius (a Latinized form of Gaulish Isina) + the locative suffix -acum.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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