When Charity Gough was born in 1784, in Virginia, United States, her father, Joshua Gough, was 40 and her mother, Charity Lunsford, was 38. She married Samuel Minear about 1800, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Lee Township, Athens, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. She died on 21 December 1860, in Albany, Athens, Ohio, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Town House Cemetery, Albany, Athens, Ohio, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Welsh: from coch, goch ‘red(-haired)’. The mutated form goch is normal after a personal name. In England, where the surname occurs from Welsh migration, it may have become hereditary in medieval times but this development was probably much later in Wales. Compare Gooch and Couch , which may sometimes derive from the same source.
English: variant of Goff .
Irish (especially Waterford and Dublin): shortened form of McGough .
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