When Eli Skaggs was born about 1804, in Warren, Kentucky, United States, his father, Daniel Skaggs, was 26 and his mother, Hannah Dunham, was 23. He married Margaret Manion on 12 December 1830, in Todd, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Todd, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died about 1856, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 54.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
English: variant of Skeggs, itself a variant, with post-medieval excrescent -s, of Skegg, a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English skegg ‘beard’ (Old Scandinavian skegg), for someone with a beard. Compare Scaggs .
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