When Margaret Sophie Evans was born on 11 June 1819, in Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, John Evans, was 35 and her mother, Hannah Jones, was 37. She married William Price Thomas on 30 September 1842, in Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 18 January 1904, in Deer Lodge, Powell, Montana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Anaconda, Deer Lodge, Montana, 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.
Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
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Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
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