When Tabitha Chenoweth was born in 1789, in Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Capt. Richard Chenoweth, was 55 and her mother, Margaret McCarty, was 38. She died on 12 March 1866, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Avoca, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state. It was the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Cornish: topographic name from the elements chy ‘house’ + noweth ‘new’.
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