When Elizabeth Poling was born on 3 October 1784, in Allegany, Maryland, United States, her father, Richard Poling Sr., was 34 and her mother, Sophia Dewitt, was 32. She married Jacob Jackson in 1804. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 3 October 1842, in Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Chequest Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Historical Boundaries: 1789: Allegany, Maryland, United States
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.
Probably from German habitational name from Polling (Bavaria, Austria).
English (Sussex and Hampshire) and Irish: variant of either Poland or Powling, either a habitational name from Poling in Sussex, or a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English polling, a derivative of Middle English polle ‘head, hair of the head’ or pollen ‘to cut (hair), shave (someone's head)’ + the noun-forming suffix -ing. It may have been given to someone with a distinctive head of hair or who had a shaven head.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesElizabeth (Poling) Jackson was the daughter of Richard Poling and Sophia Dewitt, residents of Allegany County, Maryland where Elizabeth was raised. Elizabeth had sisters, Sarah, Ann and Rachel Poling …
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