When Rebecca Agnes Reading was born on 5 March 1819, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Reading, was 26 and her mother, Margaret Bell Shawhan, was 21. She married Thomas Riley Wilson on 25 August 1836, in Pike, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Madison Township, Clark, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Sweet Home Township, Clark, Missouri, United States in 1870. She was buried in Mount Air Presbyterian Cemetery, Curryville, Pike, Missouri, 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.
Historical Boundaries 1836: Clark County, Missouri
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
English: variant of Redding .
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