Brief Life History of John
When John Johns was born in 1803, in Missouri, United States, his father, William Johns, was 43 and his mother, Sarah Wood, was 34. He married Hannah Lastly on 12 September 1830, in Franklin, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 2 June 1866, in Hickory, Newton, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 63.
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- John Johns, "United States Census, 1880"
- John Johnes, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- John William Johnson in entry for Mrs Annie Smith Johnson, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1803 · Louisiana Purchase Opens Mississippi for Commerce
In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase it made it so that the Mississippi River would be opened to commerce. The stretch of land includes present day Mississippi, Louisiana, and continues Northward.
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Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of John with genitival or excrescent -s, or a variant of Jones . It is common in Cornwall and Devon, south Wales, the West Midlands and Lancashire. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as Albanian Gjonaj or any other Albanian patronymic from the personal name Gjon ‘John’ and its variants or derivatives; see also examples at Johnson .
German: patronymic from John or a shortened form of Johannes .
Americanized form of Swiss German Schantz .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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