John DeBord was born in 1820, in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States as the son of Debord and ?. He married Lucinda Ashurst on 8 April 1844, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Greene, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Nodaway, Missouri, United States in 1890. He died on 3 March 1882, in Holt, Missouri, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Burr Oak Church Cemetery, Skidmore, Missouri, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1828: Pulaski, Kentucky, United States Historical Names: 1800: Higgins Station 1828: Adams' Mill 1879: Pulaski Station 1880: Pulaski
Historical Boundaries January 1841: Nodaway County created February 1841: Renamed Holt County
Altered form of English Deborde , a surname of French origin.
French: habitational name, with the preposition de ‘from’, for someone from a place called Bord, in Creuse, or perhaps, from either of two places called Bort, in Puy-de-Dôme and Corrèze. Alternatively, a topographic name for someone who lived at the side of a road, river, or similar, from bord ‘border, edge’.
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