When Martha A. Barham was born on 4 July 1820, in Wake, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Oliver Barham Jr, was 30 and her mother, Mary Ann "Polly" Shearin, was 26. She married Cyrus C Pippen about 1843, in Greene, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870. She died on 23 December 1886, in Ashley, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Hamburg, Ashley, Arkansas, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: habitational name from any of various places so called in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex, and Devon. Most, for example those in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, are named with Old English beorg ‘hill’ + hām ‘homestead’. The one in Kent, however, is from an unattested Old English byname Biora, Beora (a derivative of bera ‘bear’) + hām.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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