Brief Life History of Merit
When Merit Woods was born on 10 October 1818, in Jessamine, Kentucky, United States, his father, Richard Woods, was 30 and his mother, Esther Rice, was 26. He married Elizabeth Collins in 1846, in Jessamine, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Keene, Jessamine, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 18 August 1881, in Jessamine, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Keene Cemetery, Keene, Jessamine, Kentucky, United States.
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- Merritt Woods, "United States Census, 1880"
- Merit Woods, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Merritt Wirds, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"
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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.
1819 · First Commercial Oil Well Opens
In 1819, in McCreary County, Kentucky along Cumberland River was the site of the first commercial oil well.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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