When Richard Simpson Green Ayers was born on 27 October 1820, in Georgia, United States, his father, Asa Ayers, was 30 and his mother, Olivia Olive Vessells, was 29. He married Louisa Heddon in 1841, in Tippah, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Tippah, Mississippi, United States in 1870 and Beat 5, Tippah, Mississippi, United States in 1880. He died on 27 May 1897, in Ripley, Tippah, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Falkner, Tippah, Mississippi, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
In 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.
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English: derivative of Ayer , with excrescent -s. The -s may represent a trace of the Latin nominative singular in heres ‘heir’, but it may also signify the son or servant of someone known as ‘the heir’, i.e. someone who was heir to some great estate.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesConfederate (CSV) Private John M. Ayers (c. 1844 - ?) Home State: Mississippi Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: 2nd Mississippi Infantry Before Sharpsburg Age 18, he enlisted as Private, Company …
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