When John Alfred Dillard was born on 1 March 1819, in Laurens, South Carolina, United States, his father, George W. Dillard, was 42 and his mother, Martha Garrett, was 36. He married Mary O'Dell Smart on 1 April 1842, in Laurens, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 2 June 1848, in Clinton, Laurens, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Clinton, Laurens, South Carolina, United States.
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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.
On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called "the rising." The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it.
In 1829 Fort Sumter is constructed in the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Fort Sumter is most known for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War. It is barely ready when the American Civil War starts.
English (Worcestershire and Staffordshire): possibly a variant of Dollard , either by euphemism or by the fronting of a back vowel between two alveolar consonants, for which there are many parallels. Compare Dilliard and Dilyard .
History: This surname was in VA by 1698.
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