Brief Life History of Elizabeth
Elizabeth Hale was born in 1793, in Franklin, Virginia, United States as the daughter of Benjamin Hale and Dicey E Franklin. She married Jacob Shepherd in 1810. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Floyd, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Magoffin, Kentucky, United States in 1860. She died in 1875, in Gunlock, Magoffin, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Brice Hale Cemetery, Orchard, Magoffin, Kentucky, United States.
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- David Teatus, "United States Census, 1860"
- Elizabeth Hale Shepherd, "Find A Grave Index"
- Bettie Ha...le in entry for Jary Shepherd, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1796 · Wilderness Road Opens to Wagons
In 1796, the Wilderness Road opened up for wagon use. The route was used by colonial and early settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. It started in Virginia, and went southward to Tennessee and then went north to Kentucky. The main danger of this route was Native American attacks.
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: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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