When Jeremiah Back was born on 19 July 1806, in Lancaster, Garrard, Kentucky, United States, his father, Joseph Back, was 50 and his mother, Winneford Harper, was 39. He married Sally Brown on 3 May 1837, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (Devon, Kent, Sussex, and Norfolk): from the Middle English personal name Bakke (Old English Bacca). It is of uncertain origin, but may have been a byname in the same sense as 3.
English: nickname from Middle English bakke ‘bat’, of uncertain application, perhaps a nickname for a person with poor eyesight, from the expression ‘blind as a bat’.
English: from Middle English bakke ‘back’ (Old English bæc), hence a nickname for someone with a hunched back or some other noticeable peculiarity of the back or spine, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or ridge, or at the rear of a settlement.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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