Brief Life History of Wealthy W
When Wealthy W Barden was born on 31 August 1820, in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Amasa Barden, was 29 and her mother, Ester Maria Janes, was 21. She married Lucius G Seeley on 29 January 1838, in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Connecticut, United States in 1870. She died in 1878, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford Center, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Wealthy Seeley in household of Lucius Seeley, "United States Census, 1860"
- Wealthy W. Bardon, "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"
- Wealthy W. Barden Seeley, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Barden Park in Tonbridge, Kent, or Bardown in Ticehurst, Sussex, or Berden in Essex.
English: habitational name from any of the places in North and Yorkshire named Barden, from Old English bere ‘barley’ (or the derived adjective beren) + denu ‘valley’.
English: variant of Bardon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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