Brief Life History of Pleasant Thomas
When Pleasant Thomas Ford was born on 30 January 1792, in Buckingham, Virginia, United States, his father, Jacob Ford, was 32 and his mother, Lucretia Maxey, was 31. He married Ellen Nelly Harris on 5 May 1815, in Garrard, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 5 August 1844, in Monroe, Missouri, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Paris, Monroe, Missouri, United States.
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- Pleasant Ford, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Pleasant Thomas Ford, "Find A Grave Index"
- Pleasant Ford was over securities for Margaret Harris
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1803
Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).
Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).
Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Much of the United States was once "public domain" land owned by the federal government and transferred to individuals under laws enacted by Congress. Missouri was among the 30 states that were formed …
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