When Eleanor Word was born in 1769, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, Charles Word Jr, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Sarah Adams, was 16. She died on 15 April 1830, in Franklin, Georgia, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Seneca, Ontario, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Historical Boundaries 1784: Franklin, Georgia, United States
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.
Perhaps an Americanized form of Dutch Van der Woord, a habitational name from any of the places called Woord or Woerd.
English: variant of Worth .
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