When Rowena Lackey was born on 14 March 1816, in Winston, Douglas, Georgia, United States, her father, Samuel C. Lackey, was 25 and her mother, Mary "Polly" Huff, was 18. She married Elijah Feaster Beam on 21 October 1841, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Gwinnett, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Walton, Georgia, United States in 1860. She died on 19 May 1884, at the age of 68, and was buried in Itawamba, Mississippi, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1818: Walton, Georgia, United States
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
Irish form of the Scottish habitational name Leckie .
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