Brief Life History of Jemima
When Jemima Starr was born on 8 November 1804, in Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Jeremiah Starr, was 28 and her mother, Barbara Brookhart, was 23. She married Isaac Marion Cronk on 14 December 1830, in Floyd, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 20 August 1836, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Georgetown Township, Floyd, Indiana, United States.
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- Jemima Starr, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Jemimia Starr Cronk, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jemima Starr, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Kentucky Bend Created
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English sterre ‘star’ (Old English steorra), used, like the Old Norse Stjarna, as a nickname, but also occasionally as a personal name. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the nickname denoted someone with a streak of white hair. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
English: in addition, the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational, referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a star (see 2 above). Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Star 1 and 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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