Staley ancestry » America Jane Swetnam (1850-1886)

Personal data America Jane Swetnam 

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Household of America Jane Swetnam

She is married to Elijah B May.

They got married on July 1, 1871 at Morgan, Kentucky, she was 21 years old.Sources 6, 7


Child(ren):

  1. Rollin Eugene May  1873-1949
  2. Leonard Drake May  1881-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of America Jane Swetnam

Mildred Cross
1778-1860
John Osborne
1768-1853

America Jane Swetnam
1850-1886

1871

Elijah B May
1850-????


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    2. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    3. 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1860; Census Place: Division 2, Morgan, Kentucky; Roll: M653_388; Page: 348; Family History Library Film: 803388 / Ancestry.com
    4. 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1850; Census Place: Morgan, Kentucky; Roll: M432_214; Page: 149B; Image: 339 / Ancestry.com
    5. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965, Ancestry.com, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives; Frankfort, Kentucky / Ancestry.com
    6. Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    7. Kentucky, Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900, Dodd, Jordan, comp / Ancestry.com
    8. 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1870; Census Place: Precinct 2, Wolfe, Kentucky; Roll: M593_504; Page: 405A; Family History Library Film: 552003 / Ancestry.com
    9. 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Year: 1880; Census Place: Black Water, Morgan, Kentucky; Roll: 435; Page: 525D; Enumeration District: 086 / Ancestry.com

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    • The temperature on March 27, 1850 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In The Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1850: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
      • April 4 » A large part of the English village of Cottenham burns to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
      • May 15 » The Arana–Southern Treaty is ratified, ending "the existing differences" between Great Britain and Argentina.
      • June 19 » Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
      • June 29 » Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
      • September 9 » The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
      • November 29 » The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.
    • The temperature on July 1, 1871 was about 21.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
    • In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
      • May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
      • June 10 » Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
      • June 16 » The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
      • September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
      • October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
    • The temperature on July 27, 1886 was about 16.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
      • May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
      • May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
      • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
      • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
      • August 31 » The 7.0 Mw  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
    

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