When Stephen Lee Jr. was born on 6 January 1824, in Edgar, Illinois, United States, his father, Stephen Lee, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Flood, was 25. He married Nancy Elizabeth Kidwell in 1842, in Clark, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Hickman Township, Scott, Arkansas, United States in 1870. He died on 22 January 1908, in McClain, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in New Johnsonville Cemetery, Byars Township, McClain, Oklahoma, 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 Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
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