When Smith Grady was born in 1812, in Rockingham, Virginia, United States, his father, Ambrose Grady, was 37 and his mother, Mary Polly Lee, was 28. He married Eliza Ann Baggerly on 26 June 1828, in Jeffersonville, Jeffersonville Township, Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in New Albany Circuit, Floyd, Indiana, United States in 1830 and Wood Township, Clark, Indiana, United States in 1850. He died before 1860, in Floyd, Indiana, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
Irish (Munster and Connacht): shortened Anglicized form of Ó Grádaigh (see O'Grady ) or Mag Bhrádaigh (see McGrady ).
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