When Thomas Porter Jones was born on 9 February 1823, in Caldwell, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Porter Jones, was 31 and his mother, Mary Hughes Dillingham, was 29. He married Silvia Dunning on 16 July 1840, in Caldwell, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Polk Township, Christian, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 21 March 1914, in Elm Grove Township, Labette, Kansas, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Labette, Kansas, 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 Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
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