Brief Life History of William Jeffreys
When William Jeffreys Alston was born on 31 December 1800, in Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia, United States, his father, Nathaniel Alston, was 25 and his mother, Mary Grey Jeffreys, was 18. He married Martha Cade on 26 August 1824, in Marengo, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Western Division, Walker, Alabama, United States in 1860 and Alabama, United States in 1870. He died on 10 June 1876, in Magnolia, Marengo, Alabama, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Magnolia, Marengo, Alabama, United States.
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- Wm I Alston, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: William I. Alston - birth: 31 December 1800; South Carolina, United States
- William I. Alston, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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World Events (8)
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1806
Historical Boundaries: 1806: Baldwin, Georgia, United States
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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William Jeffreys Alston (December 31, 1800 – June 10, 1876) was an American slave owner,[1] politician and a United States representative from Alabama. William Jeffreys Alston Member of the U.S. Hous …
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