When Robert Nicholson Shrewsbury was born in 1837, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States, his father, Drury Shrewsbury, was 37 and his mother, Ann Nicholson, was 39. He lived in Madison, Kentucky, United States in 1850. He died on 20 August 1864, in Sumter, Georgia, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Andersonville National Historic Site, Macon, Georgia, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1837: Macon, Georgia, United States
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: habitational name from Shrewsbury (Shropshire), probably from Old English scrobb (genitive scrobbes), a variant of scrubb, scrybb ‘shrub, brushwood’, + burg ‘fortress’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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