When Nancy Catherine Mackey was born on 27 July 1818, in North Carolina, United States, her father, John Mackey, was 35 and her mother, Mary Wetzel, was 29. She married James Alexander Copeland on 2 January 1841, in Cherokee, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in DeKalb, Alabama, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 2, Wise, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 12 April 1901, in Alvord, Wise, Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Morris, Texas, United States.
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In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
Pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, this is Irish, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macdha ‘descendant of Macdha’, a personal name meaning ‘virile, manly’.
With the stress on the second syllable, it is a variant of Scottish and Irish McKay .
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