Elder James Gholson was born in 1806, in Scott, Kentucky, United States. He married Mary Jane " Polly" Hudson on 5 March 1825, in Carmi, White, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 22 April 1850, in Argyle, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Nora, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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.
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.
English: variant of Golson .
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