When Olive Abigail Winans was born on 7 December 1822, in Urbana, Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Winans, was 32 and her mother, Olive Althea Norton, was 35. She married John Wesley Chess Sr. on 4 March 1841, in South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Harrods Creek, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and New York, United States in 1922. She died on 12 January 1915, at the age of 92, and was buried in City Cemetery, South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States.
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The state capital was moved from Corydon to Indianapolis on January 10, 1825.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
Americanized form of Dutch Wynants or Wijnants: patronymic from the personal name Wynant, Wijnant (see Winand ).
History: American bearers of this surname are mostly if not all descended from Jan Wynants, who came to North America from the Netherlands c. 1662.
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