When Mahala Roddy was born about 1806, in Rhea, Tennessee, United States, her father, Jesse Roddy, was 32 and her mother, Jane "Jenny" Mahaffe, was 30. She had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Moses Farmer. She lived in Van Buren, Missouri, United States in 1850. She died on 2 June 1859, at the age of 54, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Township, Van Buren, Missouri, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Irish:
of Galway origin, a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Rodaigh ‘descendant of Rodach’, a personal name based on rod ‘spirited, lively, strong’. Forms with vowel e derive from a variant, Ó Roidigh. Compare Redding .
shortened Anglicized form of Irish Ó Rodacháin ‘descendant of Rodachán’, a personal name which is a diminutive of rodach. This was an ecclesiastical family in Leitrim. A variant Ó Roideacháin gives Redican , for which Reddington was sometimes adopted as an Anglicized equivalent.
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