When Jackson O. Pritchard was born on 5 May 1819, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, his father, Joseph Pritchard Sr, was 35 and his mother, Mary Polly Tye, was 32. He married Louisa Jane Rockhold on 21 February 1850, in Mercer, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Mercer, Mercer, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Harrison Township, Mercer, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 14 January 1897, in Mercer, Missouri, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Goshen Cemetery, Harrison Township, Mercer, Missouri, United States.
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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.
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhisiart ‘son of Richard’(see Richard ).
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