When Letsy Mayfield was born on 30 August 1817, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Elias Mayfield, was 29 and her mother, Jane Fleming, was 25. She married John Browder Gentry in 1836. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died in 1881, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Eaton, Gibson, Tennessee, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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 Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
English: habitational name from a place so named in Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English mæthel ‘speech, assembly, meeting place’ + feld ‘open country’. Though it is possible that the surname could also be a habitational name from Mayfield in Sussex, this is unlikely due to the geographical distribution of early bearers.
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