When Isaac Whittaker Jones was born in February 1814, in Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee, United States, his father, Isaac Thomas Jones, was 34 and his mother, Polly Oglesby, was 32. He married Eunice Jane Griffin on 25 April 1837, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Columbia, Georgia, United States in 1840. He died in February 1850, in Madison, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 36.
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Mississippi is the 20th state.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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