Brief Life History of George Ash
When George Ash House was born on 4 September 1800, in Oppenheim, Fulton, New York, United States, his father, Adolphus Von House, was 31 and his mother, Maria Marion Ash, was 26. He married Mary Maria Davis on 17 October 1822. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Saint Mary Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1855 and Richland Township, Republic, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 25 January 1857, in Saint Mary, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Saint Mary, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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- George A House, "Illinois State Census, 1855"
- George A Hause, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
- George Ash House, "Find A Grave Index"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
Name Meaning
English: topographic or occupational name for someone employed ‘at the house’, from Middle English hous(e) (Old English hūs), probably a religious house such as a convent. In the Middle Ages the majority of the population lived in cottages or huts rather than houses.
English: variant of Howes .
English: perhaps a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English huse, a southwest dialect form of Old English hyse ‘place overgrown with (water) plants’, a derivative of Old English hos ‘(water) plant’. In modern English, the name might have been absorbed into Huss or Hose .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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