When John Drew McClanahan was born on 17 June 1805, in Franklin, Kentucky, United States, his father, Samuel James Mcclanahan, was 26 and his mother, Mary Angeline Noakes, was 21. He married Elizabeth Beaty on 13 February 1831. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Tipton, Tipton, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Tipton, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 9 February 1890, in Gainesville, Tipton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Goggins Cemetery, Munford, Tipton, Tennessee, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Leanacháin ‘son of Leanachán’, a personal name meaning ‘possessing cloaks’ or ‘with the cloak’. In Scotland the surname (with internal ch) was once common in Galloway. There is also an Irish Ó surname from the same personal name, see Lenahan .
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