When Mary Ann Freeman was born in 1805, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Freeman Sr., was 28 and her mother, Eleanor Nancy Lomax, was 18. She married Thomas Moxley in 1832, in Callaway, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Montgomery Township, Montgomery, Missouri, United States in 1850. She died on 20 August 1859, at the age of 54, and was buried in Chariton, Missouri, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
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.
English: from Middle English freman, fremon ‘freeman, free-born man’ (Old English frēomann, frīgmann), used also occasionally as a personal name. As an African American surname it was in many cases adopted as a name denoting a man freed of slavery. See also Fryman and Free .
Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery ).
Americanized form of French Lafrenière (see Lafreniere ).
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