Brief Life History of Joel A
When Joel A Wooten was born about 1813, in Wake, North Carolina, United States, his father, James J Wooten, was 42 and his mother, Mary Smith, was 40.
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English wid(u), wudu ‘wood’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, such as Wootton in Northamptonshire or Oxfordshire, Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, Wotton in Surrey, and Wotton under Edge in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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