When Tennessee Virginia Cockrill was born on 12 January 1815, in Cornersville, Marshall, Tennessee, United States, her father, John W. Cockrill, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Bibb Harding, was 32. She married John D. Newell on 20 March 1832, in Mexico. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Wharton, Texas, United States in 1850 and Fort Bend, Texas, United States in 1860. She died in April 1896, in Richmond, Fort Bend, Texas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Morton Cemetery, Richmond, Fort Bend, Texas, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Fort Bend, Republic of Texas 1845: Fort Bend, Texas, United States
English (of Norman origin): variant of Cockrell .
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