Brief Life History of Claudia Candis
When Claudia Candis Lee was born on 6 December 1800, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Edmund Lee, was 49 and her mother, Nancy Wright, was 37. She married Stephen Coonrod on 22 February 1819, in Hardin, Marshall, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 11 November 1879, in Greene, Illinois, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Greenfield, Greene, Illinois, United States.
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- Candaco Coonrod in household of Stephen Coonrod, "United States Census, 1870"
- Candice Lee, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Candis Coonrod, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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