When Louisa Maria Spears was born on 13 March 1819, in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States, her father, Samuel Spears, was 58 and her mother, Rebecca Smith, was 34. She married James Allen West on 22 January 1840. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in South Fork, Howell, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 1, Denton, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 13 December 1905, in Sadler, Grayson, Texas, United States, at the age of 86.
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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.
"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
English and Scottish: variant of Spear , with post-medieval excrescent -s. The name has sometimes been confused with Pearse .
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