When Leonidas Alston was born on 17 January 1823, in Marengo, Alabama, United States, his father, Nathaniel Alston, was 47 and his mother, Mary Grey Jeffreys, was 41. He married Celia Ann Seabrook on 27 September 1854, in Marengo, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Marengo, Marengo, Alabama, United States in 1850 and Western Division, Walker, Alabama, United States in 1860. He died in 1881, in Choctaw, Alabama, United States, at the age of 58.
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Historical Boundaries: 1824: Marengo, Alabama, United States
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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
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