When Hannah Kiker was born on 18 January 1819, in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, her father, Charles Kiker, was 27 and her mother, Amelia Minyard, was 24. She married William P. Muse on 9 October 1834, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Union, Union, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and Union, North Carolina, United States in 1860. She died before 1874, in North Carolina, 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 United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
Americanized form of German Keicher , and possibly also of some other similar (like-sounding) surname, such as Swiss German Giger and German Geiger or Kiecker . Compare Kyker .
Shortened form of Karriker , a surname of German origin, or an altered form of one of its variants, such as Kerker 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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