When Mary Anna "Annie" Galloway was born in 1820, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Jackson Galloway, was 28 and her mother, Hannah Reasor, was 35. She married Thomas J Ferrel on 27 October 1838, in Floyd, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Greenville Township, Floyd, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Lafayette Township, Floyd, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died on 27 June 1899, in Floyd, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Floyd, Indiana, 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 Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Galloway in southwest Scotland, named as ‘place of the foreign Gaels’, from Gaelic gall ‘foreigner’ + Gaidheal ‘Gael’. From the 8th century or before it was a province of Anglian Northumbria. In the 9th century it was settled by mixed Gaelic-Norse inhabitants from the Hebrides and Isle of Man.
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