Brief Life History of Olive
When Olive Mendenhall was born on 26 December 1819, in Springfield Monthly Meeting, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, her father, Seth Mendenhall, was 48 and her mother, Clarissa Weeks, was 50. She married Abraham Spoon on 10 September 1831, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Jamestown, Guilford, North Carolina, United States in 1880. She died on 14 November 1895, in Jamestown Township, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Jamestown, Guilford, North Carolina, United States.
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- Ollie Spoon in household of Abram Spoon, "United States Census, 1870"
- Caley Mendenhall, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Olive Mendenhall Spoon, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places called Mildenhall, in Suffolk and Wiltshire. Both placenames probably derive from an unattested Old English personal name Milda (genitive Mildan) + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’. The spelling Mendenhall is rare in Britain, where Mildenhall is more often found.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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