Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Waggoner was born on 7 October 1791, in Culpeper, Virginia, United States, her father, Richard Waggoner, was 42 and her mother, Catherine Gaines, was 34. She married John Mathew Cabaniss on 22 November 1810, in Barren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Petersburg, Menard, Illinois, United States in 1850. She died on 7 March 1854, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Saint Petersburg Cemetery, Petersburg West Number 16 Precinct, Menard, Illinois, United States.
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- Lucy W Cabanis, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lucy Waggoner, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Lucy W Cabanis, "United States Census, 1850"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German or Dutch Wagner or its German and Dutch variants Wagener and Wagenaar . Compare Waggener and Wagoner .
Possibly also English: altered form of Waghorn . The surname Waggoner is very rare in Britain.
History: A planter named John Waggener or Waggoner, who came to America c. 1670 and lived in Essex County, VA, is said to have been born in Colchester, Essex (England). No documentary source for this origin is given and an English origin is difficult to establish. The nearest similar English surname is Wagner 2, a very rare Norfolk name, originating in the 14th-century. In 17th-century Kent a number of families named Waghorn alias Wagon were occasionally also known as Waggoner (through false association with that word). Direct derivation from the English word wag(g)on is not possible, since it was borrowed into English only in the 16th century from Dutch, and wag(g)oner is an early Modern English coinage.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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