When Catherine Ann Williams was born on 11 December 1819, in Kanawha, Virginia, United States, her father, William Williams, was 27 and her mother, Esther Ruffner, was 23. She married Robert Owens on 22 October 1837, in Fairfield, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Iron City, Iron, Utah, United States in 1850 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 May 1886, in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Smithfield City Cemetery, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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