When Marah Ann Richards Slack was born about 1813, in Virginia, United States, her father, John Richards Jr., was 31 and her mother, Barbara Ann Jarrett, was 17. She married Cornelius Slack on 17 November 1839, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Kanawha, Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died before 1880, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
English: variant of Richard , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Rickards .
German: patronymic from the personal name Richard .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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