Brief Life History of Roxanna Carey
When Roxanna Carey Lane was born in 1798, in Goochland, Virginia, United States, her father, Tarelton Layne, was 34 and her mother, Tabitha Minter, was 34. She married Mathew Vergin on 24 March 1816, in Clark, Indiana, United States. She lived in Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Ripley Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 27 November 1880, in Alamo, Ripley Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Indian Creek Cemetery, New Market, Union Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States.
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- Roxanna Hall, "United States Census, 1860"
- Rosanna Dowden, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Roxanna Layne Dowden, "Find A Grave Index"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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