When George W. Mosteller was born about 1838, in Georgia, United States, his father, Jacob Mosteller, was 31 and his mother, Eunice West, was 30. He married Elizabeth Hayes on 26 January 1860, in Cass, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Cass Station, Bartow, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Cass, Georgia, United States in 1860. He died on 25 November 1863, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 26.
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A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Altered form of German Marsteller . See also Masteller .
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