When Robert Koonce was born in 1803, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Lemuel Gibson Koonce Sr, was 26 and his mother, Else Jarman, was 23.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
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.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
Americanized form of German Kuntz or Kuhns .
Americanized form of Dutch Koens, a patronymic from Koen .
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