When Rhoda Stonecipher was born in 1788, in Roane, Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph Marion Stonecipher, was 34 and her mother, Salome Fairchild, was 33. She married John Braswell on 15 July 1811. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Morgan, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. She died in 1860, in Crookedfork, Morgan, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72.
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The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Americanized form of German Steinseifer, a topographic name composed of Middle High German stein ‘stone, rock’ + sīfe ‘swampy creek’.
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