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In honor of Wood's eldest daughter, the town was renamed Elizabeth that same year.
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Wood's Monument at West Point is dedicated in his honor.
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Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.
The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean ( called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor ), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom.
They erected a cross, and named the point of land Cape Henry, in honor of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James.
First was about Akean and Kapid ( meaning " twins ") of whom Balingangan, Datu Bangkaya's eldest son, named his territories of in honor of his twin daughters.
The Sadigura Rebbe bequeathed this honor to his eldest son, Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman, the first Boyaner Rebbe, and his progeny.
His nephew the King Charles I of Hungary ( 1307 – 1342 ) exalted his image and veneration, consecrating churches and a monastery in the settlement of Lippa in his honor, and giving the name of the Saint to his eldest son, which later succeeded him in the throne as Louis I of Hungary ( 1342 – 1382 ).
In the Book of Chronicles, Shelah is identified as the name of a clan, containing a subclan named Er, most likely named to honor his deceased eldest brother.
Dr. T's eldest daughter, Dee Dee ( Kate Hudson ), is planning to go through with her approaching wedding despite the secret that she is romantically involved with Marilyn ( Liv Tyler ), the maid of honor.
Hattusili named his eldest son and crown prince Nerikkaili in honor of this achievement.
They named the spot in honor of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James I of England.
The Sadigura Rebbe bequeathed this honor to his eldest son, Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman, the first Boyaner Rebbe, and his progeny.
Cape Henry was named in 1607 in honor of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James I of England, by an expedition of the London Company branch of the proprietary Virginia Company headed by Captain Christopher Newport.
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She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.
* 1991 – A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
Her daughter received the same honor in 1872, as well as her granddaughter in 1910.
While the topic of retiring # 21 throughout Major League Baseball like Jackie Robinson's # 42 has been broached, and supported by groups such as Hispanics Across America, Jackie Robinson's daughter disagrees, believing that Major League Baseball should honor him another way.
Sicily rebels against King Charles, the son is recognised by the mother, marries the master's daughter, and, his brother being discovered, is reinstated in great honor.
* December 20 – A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria, for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
Hodierna's daughter, Melisende of Tripoli, was named in honor of the queen.
He and Chani, daughter of Liet Kynes, take each other as mates and produce a son, named Leto in honor of Paul's father.
In 1960, in honor of his 100th birthday and the 350th anniversary of Santa Fe, his daughter Dee and his grandson, Seton Cottier ( son of Anya ), scattered the ashes over Seton Village from an airplane.
Homer calls her " Ino-Leocothea of the beautiful ankles, daughter of Cadmus, who was once a mortal speaking with the tongue of men, but now in the salt sea-waters has received honor at the hands of the gods ".
Thesmophoria was a festival held in Greek cities, in honor of the goddesses Demeter and her daughter Persephone.
Yet elsewhere Plutarch states that Sciron was the son of Canethus and Henioche, a daughter of Pittheus, which made him a cousin of Theseus, and that, in one version, Theseus instituted the Isthmian Games so as to honor him.
McCrary chose to call it Roberta in honor of his young daughter.
James Madison (" Boss ") Hendry ( 1839 – 1922 ) named the town in honor of Arcadia Albritton ( 1861 – 1932 ), a daughter of Thomas H. and Fannie ( Waldron ) Albritton, pioneer settlers.
Georgia's founder and colonial governor, James Oglethorpe, renamed the island " Amelia Island " in honor of Princess Amelia ( 1710 – 1786 ), King George II's daughter, although the island was still a Spanish possession.
When the Trail of Tears forced the movement of Warluskee, the daughter of a local Cherokee Chief and friend of Reinhardt ’ s, westward, he named this settlement in her honor.
When the first charter of the town was secured by an attorney representing the railroad ( Middleton P. Barrow ), the name was changed to Cornelia in honor of his second wife ( and daughter of Confederate Major General Henry R. Jackson ), and so it has remained.
In response to not getting their mail from the Post Office, it was renamed " Ilo " four years later, in honor of a local merchant's daughter.
The new town was named Eudora in honor of Chief Fish's daughter.
Neona was suggested to honor the daughter of Chief Little Bear, but local protests favored the name of St. Paul.
On December 30, when they were back in New York, she gave birth to a daughter, Kathy Lynn, called " Kate " in honor of Rothko ’ s mother.
Shortly after his death in 1889 his daughter, Eliza Fox Teats, donated some land to the Methodist Protestant Church for a chapel to be named in honor of her father.
He named the station " Enola ," in honor of his four-year-old daughter, Enola Francis Miller.
The town was renamed to Elizabethville in honor of the Mr. Bender's daughter, Elizabeth.
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It is developing as an annual autumn event in his native town of Legnago where a theater has been renamed in his honor.
According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.
The town was known as Tiptonia, named in honor of General Tipton.
Violence occurred at a small town called Patzicia, where about one thousand Indians rose in spontaneous outbursts: “ in honor of our General Ponce ,” and “ we want land .” More than twenty ladinos were killed during this demonstration.
* The town of Rockne, Texas was named to honor him.
Incorporated under the name Waterloo, the town was renamed Austin shortly thereafter in honor of Stephen F. Austin.
* The town of Martinsborough, North Carolina, itself named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin in 1771, is renamed " Greenesville " in honor of United States General Nathanael Greene by the North Carolina General Assembly ; the name " Greenesville " is later shortened to become Greenville.
The town of Somers, New York, located in Westchester County is named in his honor.
In his honor, many took to calling the town Williamsburgh.
Both he and his wife are buried in the town cemetery of Pawling, New York ; after his death his farm of Dapplemere was sold and renamed " Dewey Lane Farm " in his honor.
* The town of Claysburg in central Pennsylvania is named in honor of Clay.
The towns bought Thorpe's remains, erected a monument to him, merged, and renamed the newly united town in his honor Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania even though Thorpe had never been there.
The act specified the " county town " be named " Cookeville " in honor of Richard F. Cooke, who served in the Tennessee Senate from 1851 – 1854, representing at various times Jackson, Fentress, Macon, Overton and White Counties.
Kelly's boyhood town of Houston, Missouri, named Emmett Kelly Park in his honor and used to host an annual Emmett Kelly Clown Festival, which attracted clowns from across the region including Kelly's grandson, Joey Kelly, who returned every year to perform as a special guest.
Mounds, Illinois July 4, 1910-One dead and one mortally wounded is the result of an attempt by four negroes to shoot up the town in honor of Jack Johnson's victory at Reno tonight.
In 1856, the citizens of Hernando County chose to rename the town, their new County Seat, Brooksville in honor of South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, who in the same year beat fierce abolitionist Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the Senate chambers, winning the Congressman great renown in the South.
In honor of Patchen, the town of Niles also renamed the little street where he was born to " Patchen Avenue.
Railroad owner Peter Demens named the town that grew near the railroad's terminus St. Petersburg in honor of his hometown.
The town of Bartow was named in honor of Francis S. Bartow, the first Confederate officer to die in the American Civil War.
The local newspapers reported that hundreds of people swarmed into town to get a look at Crockett, and a group of leading citizens put on a dinner in his honor that night at the Jeffries Hotel.
Wright and town citizens renamed the town “ Columbia ” in honor of Christopher Columbus in the hope of influencing the new U. S. Congress to select it as the nation ’ s capital, a plan George Washington favored ; a formal proposal to do so was made in 1789.
In the town of Brusciano, Italy, located near Naples, an annual feast in honor of Saint Anthony is held in late August.
His home town International Falls high school nickname is the Broncos in his honor.
The town served as the county seat of government from the county's founding in 1844 until a county election in 1878 moved that honor to Grafton, West Virginia.
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