When Heber Shomaker was born on 24 December 1807, in Pendleton, Kentucky, United States, his father, Lakey Shoemaker, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Ellis, was 33. He married Nancy Turner on 13 November 1837, in Pendleton, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 6 September 1856, in his hometown, at the age of 48, and was buried in Pendleton, Kentucky, 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.
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.
Americanized form of Dutch Schoemaker and German and Jewish Schumacher .
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