When Lucinda Hungerford was born on 10 February 1820, in Scioto, Ohio, United States, her father, Horace Hungerford, was 20 and her mother, Jane Coryell, was 19. She married Ephraim Hughes on 3 September 1837, in Scioto, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 4 April 1863, in Jersey, Illinois, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Otterville, Jersey, Illinois, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
English: habitational name from Hungerford (Berkshire), from Old English hungor ‘hunger’, here probably denoting unproductive land, + ford. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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