Brief Life History of George Washington
When George Washington Bankhead was born on 12 February 1819, in Franklin, Alabama, United States, his father, John Black Bankhead, was 39 and his mother, Jane Watson McCurdy, was 40. He married Jane about 1844, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 9 April 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- George Bankhead, "United States Census, 1850"
- George W Bankhead, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- George Washington Bankhead, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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World Events (8)
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1820 · Making Land more affordable
"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived at the top or end of a bank or hill (see Bank 5) or habitational name from a place with this origin. There are several minor places in Scotland so called, but the most likely source of the surname is one on the border between the parishes of Kilmarnock and Dreghorn in Ayrshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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John Henderson Bankhead 1814 - 1884
“John Henderson Bankhead is Melvin Bott’s maternal G Grandfather.” (John is the one standing up in the photo.) John Henderson Bankhead was born 15 February 1814 in Rutherford County, Ten …
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