When Piercy Yell was born in 1781, in Talbot, Maryland, United States, his father, Moses Archibald Yell, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Works, was 25. He married Jane Gist about 1801, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bedford, Tennessee, United States in 1840 and Limestone, Limestone, Texas, United States in 1850. He registered for military service in 1812. He died on 21 January 1854, in Springfield, Limestone, Texas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Yell Cemetery, Montgomery, Texas, United States.
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In 1781, Maryland donated land to be used for part of Washington, D. C.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
English (Essex and Surrey): apparently from a Middle English personal name Yell (a survival of the Old English G(i)ella, of uncertain meaning, originally suggested by Ekwall to explain the first element of the placename Yelling in Huntingdonshire).
Altered form of French Diel 2.
History: Some of the American bearers of the surname Yell are descendants of Charles Diel from France (see Diel ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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