When Mary Caroline Hillhouse was born on 18 October 1822, in Giles, Tennessee, United States, her father, George H. Hillhouse, was 45 and her mother, Elizabeth Dobbins, was 41. She married William Murell on 25 March 1845. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Mount Pleasant Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1860. She registered for military service in 1846. She died on 11 June 1893, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Boucher Cemetery, Mount Pleasant Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: topographic name from Middle English or early modern English hill + house ‘house on the hill’. In Yorkshire the surname may arise from the name of a farm in Fartown, Pudsey (Yorkshire).
Scottish (Ayrshire and Lanarkshire) and English: habitational name from any of several minor places in Ayrshire and elsewhere in Scotland, probably named with Middle English, Older Scots hill + house ‘house on the hill’.
History: Rev. James Hillhouse, the first minister of Montville, CT, came to North America from County Londonderry, Ireland, c. 1720. His grandson James Hillhouse was a Federalist congressman from CT and treasurer of Yale College from 1782 to 1832.
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