When John Collins Word was born on 15 December 1823, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Moss Word, was 37 and his mother, Jemima Cole, was 35. He married Caroline M Wade on 16 January 1849, in Rutherford, Gibson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 24 August 1872, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 48.
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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 Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Perhaps an Americanized form of Dutch Van der Woord, a habitational name from any of the places called Woord or Woerd.
English: variant of Worth .
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