When Molly Magdalena Rittgers was born on 8 June 1804, in Shenandoah, Page, Virginia, United States, her father, John Augustin Rittgers Sr, was 36 and her mother, Catherine Comer, was 29. She married John Root on 11 December 1824, in Fairfield, Butler, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Laurel Township, Hocking, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died on 12 June 1862, in Hocking, Ohio, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Hocking, Ohio, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
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.
Perhaps an altered form of German Röttgers or Rüttgers, patronymics from a Low German form of the personal name Rüdiger (see Rudiger ).
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