When Martha Donahue Barclay was born on 27 February 1819, in Warren, Kentucky, United States, her father, Samuel C. Barclay, was 46 and her mother, Jane Walker, was 45. She married John Walker McElwain on 23 October 1839, in Warren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Rockfield, Warren, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died on 11 January 1892, in Trenton, Christian, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Trenton, Christian, Kentucky, United States.
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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.
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Scottish: habitational name of English origin, from any of several places so called, such as Berkley in Somerset or Berkeley in Gloucestershire, both named in Old English with be(o)rc ‘birch’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
History: The surname was brought to Scotland from southwestern England in the 12th century; Walter de Berchelai or Berkelai was Chamberlain of Scotland in 1165. It was long assumed that they were from the family that held Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, but the historian G. W. S. Barrow (1973, The Kingdom of the Scots) adduced evidence that they are more probably from Berkley in Somerset.
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