When Hannah Lefter was born on 3 February 1817, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Uriah Lefter, was 66 and her mother, Barbary Cope, was 42. She married Jacob Myers on 30 June 1840, in Grant, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Table Rock, Jackson, Oregon, United States in 1880 and Central Point, Jackson, Oregon, United States in 1900. She died in 1904, in Beagle, Jackson, Oregon, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Antioch Cemetery, Sams Valley, Jackson, Oregon, United States.
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The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
English: habitational name from Letters (Ross and Cromarty), Leitters (Perthshire), or any of many other minor places in Scotland named with Gaelic leiter ‘steep slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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