Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Draper was born on 27 December 1800, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Daniel Draper, was 24 and her mother, Susanne Phillip Gibbs, was 25. She married Philip Orr on 10 October 1819, in Auburn, Lincoln, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Hartford Township, Pike, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 11 May 1873, in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois, United States.
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- Lucy Orr, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lucy Draper Orr, "Find A Grave Index"
- The Drapers in America, being a history and gen...
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1819
Historical Boundaries 1819: Pike County was created from St. Charles County.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a maker and seller of woolen cloth, from Anglo-Norman draper (Old French drapier, an agent derivative of drap ‘cloth’). The surname was introduced to Ulster in the 17th century. Draperstown in County Londonderry was named for the London Company of Drapers, which was allocated the land in the early 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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