When Jane Ann Jenny Finley was born on 8 November 1785, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States, her father, David Caldwell Finley of South River, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Mounts, was 22. She married Edmund Smith on 13 May 1801, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 12 May 1874, in Bryantsville, Garrard, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Bryantsville, Garrard, Kentucky, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (Old Irish Findlaech), from fionn ‘white, fair’ (see Finn ) + laoch ‘hero’, reinforced by an Old Norse name based on finn ‘Finn’ + leikr ‘fight’ or ‘hero’. The name is common in Ireland as well as Scotland.
English: habitational name from one or more lost, unidentified or altered placenames so named, such as Philleyholme, Dorset (recorded as Finelegh in 1280) derived from Old English fīna ‘wood-pecker’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Also a variant of Findlow, from Finlow Hill in Over Alderley, Cheshire (from Old English fīn ‘heap’ + hlāw ‘mound, hill’ meaning ‘heaped mound’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesJOHN AND MARY FINLEY OF MONTGOMERY (WYTHE) COUNTY, VIRGINIA Carmen J. Finley, C.G., Ph.D. [Published in The Virginia Genealogist, 1990, v. 34, pp. 243-55; 1991, v. 35, pp. 18-33, 122-35, 173-85 …
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