Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Stubbs was born on 6 June 1812, in Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas Stubbs, was 37 and her mother, Mary E. Hobson, was 41. She married Joseph Pray on 25 June 1829. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 17 July 1830, in Preble, Ohio, United States, at the age of 18.
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- Rebecca Stubbs, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Rebecca Stubbs Pray, "Find A Grave Index"
- Rebecca Stubbs, "Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
English:
variant of Stubbe with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
perhaps occasionally a topographic name from Middle English stub(be) ‘tree stump’ + hous ‘house’, used for someone who lived in a house by a tree stump.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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