Brief Life History of Lewis B
When Lewis B Jones was born on 21 July 1802, in Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas H. JONES III, was 20 and his mother, Mary Polly Hanes, was 17. He married Rebecca Haines in 1824, in Tyler, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Osage Township, Miller, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Missouri, United States in 1870. He died in February 1874, in Miller, Missouri, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Miller, Missouri, United States.
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- Lewis Jones, "United States Census, 1850"
- Louie A Cox, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Lewis Jones, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803
Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
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.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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