Brief Life History of Wiley F
When Wiley F Fordham was born in 1816, in Wilkinson, Georgia, United States, his father, Benjamin Fordham IV, was 32 and his mother, Elsie Miller, was 31. He married Lucretia Jane Cannon on 14 March 1845. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and District 332, Wilkinson, Georgia, United States in 1900. He died on 8 November 1900, in Wilkinson, Georgia, United States, at the age of 84.
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- Wily Fordham, "United States Census, 1900"
- Wiley Fordham, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Wiley Fordham in entry for James W Fordham, "Georgia Deaths, 1928-1940"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
1832 · Worcester v. Georgia
In 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.
1838 · Orders No. 25 Removes Cherokees
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Norfolk named Fordham, from Old English ford ‘ford’ + hām ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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