Brief Life History of William Rockhold
When William Rockhold Dean was born on 20 January 1801, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States, his father, John A Dean, was 22 and his mother, Mary Ruth Nash, was 18. He married Martha M Simpson about 1822, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States in 1840 and Shelby, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 24 November 1876, in Bristol, Ellis, Texas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Worthville, Carroll, Kentucky, United States.
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- 1840 Census in the household of William R Dean, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States
- William R. Dean, "United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865"
- 1860 Census in the household of W M Dean(30), Beat 7, Shelby, Texas, United States
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu), or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of England named Dean or Dene from this word.
English: nickname or occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean. A dean was an ecclesiastical official, the head of a chapter of canons or a church official with jurisdiction over a sub-division of an archdeaconry. Though no doubt some deans had illegitimate children, they were officially celibate, and in the main the surname is probably a nickname in origin, similar to Bishop , Prior , Priest , and Monk . The Middle English word deen, dien, dein, is a borrowing of Old French d(e)ien, doien from Latin decanus (originally a leader of ten men, from decem ‘ten’), and thus is a cognate of Deacon .
English: from the Middle English personal name Deyne (or Dene) a rhyming pet form of Reynald (see Reginald ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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