When Samuel Hepler was born in September 1785, in Goshen, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, his father, Johann Henrich Hoepler I, was 34 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Harness, was 35. He married Catharine Lair on 4 November 1811, in Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lexington District, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States for about 40 years. He died on 5 February 1862, in Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Goshen, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
German: variant of Heppler .
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