Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Grove was born on 7 March 1799, in Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States, her father, Peter Grove, was 32 and her mother, Catharine Wenrich Ache, was 23. She married Jesse Myers on 22 April 1822, in Martinsburg, Berkeley, Virginia, United States. She died on 24 December 1877, in her hometown, at the age of 78.
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- Elizabeth Grove, "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971"
- Elizabeth Myers, "Find A Grave Index"
- Elizabeth Grove in entry for Jesse Myers, "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a grove or thicket, from Middle English grove, Old English grāf, or a habitational name from any of various places so named.
English (of French Huguenot origin): Anglicized form of French Le Groux (see Groux ) or Le Greux.
German: northern variant of Grob .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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