When Churchill Gibbs Strother was born on 3 August 1829, in Culpeper, Virginia, United States, his father, Reuben Medley Strother, was 31 and his mother, Judith Churchill Gibbs, was 32. He married Mary Louise Reynolds on 17 September 1851, in Pike, Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Perry, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Warren, Missouri, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1863. He died on 12 April 1864, at the age of 34, and was buried in Warrenton City Cemetery, Warrenton, Warren, Missouri, United States.
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"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Pike, Illinois, United States
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
English: habitational name from a place somewhere in northeastern England formerly called (The) Strother, named with Middle English strother, struther, stroder ‘wooded marshland, marsh covered in brushwood’ (Old English strōther). This topographic term was current in Durham, Northumberland, and southern Scotland, but the place which gave rise to the surname has not been certainly identified. A locality called le strother is recorded near the city of Durham c. 1299, while another, recorded as le estrother in 1153–95, may have named Strother House in Boldon (Durham), unless the house was named from the surname. William de Strother was a tenant in nearby Offerton, in 1473, and he was probably a member of the Newcastle merchant-cum-gentry family from whom all or most modern bearers inherit their surname. In Northumberland, possibilities include Cold Strother in Kirkheaton and Haughton Strother, although there is no evidence for either place being known simply as The Strother. Alternatively, The Strother may have been a lost district name for either the marshy area around Cold Strother (north of the North Tyne) or that around Haughton Strother (on the south bank of the North Tyne), but again evidence is lacking. The (del) Strother family owned estates near (but not in) both places from at least the late 14th century. In southern Scotland, Struther in Lanarkshire and Struthers in Ayrshire and Fife (from the Older Scots equivalent of Middle English strother) might be considered, but for lack of supporting evidence it has been suggested that Scottish Strother is probably the attested Northumberland surname, whose bearers were major landholders on the Scottish border.
History: A William Strother is recorded in VA in 1673, probably the same man who, as William Strouder, was granted land in 1658.
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