When Jonathon Ligon was born in 1845, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Jonathan H. Ligon, was 27 and his mother, Lucinda Jolly, was 39. He married Drusilla Rae on 16 August 1866, in Franklin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Franklin, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Center Township, Dade, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died about 1889, at the age of 45, and was buried in Stigler, Haskell, Oklahoma, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
English: variant of Lygon, the name of an aristocratic English family said to be of Norman origin. It is of unexplained etymology (but compare French name below).
French: from the personal name Higon, a southern French variant of Hugo, with fused definite article l'.
Polish (also Ligoń): nickname from a derivative of Old Polish ligać ‘to lie’ or ‘to kick up a fuss’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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