When Col Miles Hicks Vernon was born on 26 March 1786, in Charlotte, Virginia, United States, his father, Cpl Thomas Gaines Vernon III, was 33 and his mother, Nancy Hicks, was 18. He married Ann Catlett Atchley on 29 August 1805, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Laclede, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Lebanon Township, Laclede, Missouri, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 10 August 1866, in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Vernon Cemetery, Lebanon Township, Laclede, Missouri, United States.
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The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Vernon in Eure, France, named from the Gaulish element ver(n) ‘alder’ + the Gallo-Roman locative suffix -o (genitive -ōnis).
French: habitational name from the same place as in 1 above or from any of several other places in France with the same name and etymology.
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