When Bethany Jane Cheston was born in 1843, in Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas E Cheston Sr., was 32 and her mother, Sarah Morgan, was 28. She married David Pelts on 6 March 1862, in Clark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Mad River, Clark, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Osborn, Greene, Ohio, United States in 1880.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: habitational name, probably from Chediston in Suffolk. This appears more likely as a source than a scantily recorded Cheston in Ugborough (Devon).
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