When Hiram Biggerstaff Willoughby was born on 14 March 1803, in Kentucky, United States, his father, John Willoughby, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Armstrong, was 23. He married Catharine M Cooper on 3 February 1830, in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Warren, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 May 1864, in Allen, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Witherspoon-Sledge Cemetery, Adolphus, Allen, Kentucky, United States.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
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.
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.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Willoughby, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Warwickshire. They are named from an Old English +wilig ‘willow’ + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
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