When Margaret Groves was born on 16 February 1802, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Fredrick Groves, was 28 and her mother, Mary Hurd, was 26. She married Francis Portis Goddard on 18 November 1824, in Fleming, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Warren, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Township of Floyd, Warren, Illinois, United States in 1860. She died on 6 November 1871, in Abingdon, Knox, Illinois, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cameron, Warren, Illinois, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
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.
English (London): variant of Grove , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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