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Kentucky, USA



 


Tree: Nederlandse voorouders

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The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States, normally included in the group of Southern states, but sometimes included, geographically and culturally, in the Midwest. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states established as a commonwealth. Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 it became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th largest state in terms of land area, and ranks 26th in population.



Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State," a nickname based on the fact that bluegrass is present in many of the lawns and pastures throughout the state. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, the most miles of navigational waterways and streams in the Lower 48, the two largest man made lakes east of the Mississippi River, the highest per capita number of deer, turkey, and elk in the US, and the most productive coalfield in the US. Kentucky is also known for thoroughbred horses, horse racing, bourbon distilleries, bluegrass music, automobile manufacturing (including the best selling car, truck, and SUV in the US market), and college basketball.



Origin of name



The origin of Kentucky's name (variously spelled Cane-tuck-ee, Cantucky, Kain-tuck-ee, and Kentuckee before its modern spelling was accepted) has never been definitively identified, though some theories have been debunked. For example, Kentucky's name does not come from the combination of "cane" and "turkey", nor does it mean "dark and bloody ground" in any known Indian language. The most likely etymology is that it comes from an Iroquoian word for "meadow" or "prairie" (c.f. Mohawk kenhtà:ke, Seneca këhta’keh). Other possibilities also exist: the suggestion of early Kentucky pioneer George Rogers Clark that the name means "the river of blood", a Wyandot name meaning "land of tomorrow", a Shawnee term possibly referring to the head of a river, or an Algonquian word for a river bottom.



History



Although inhabited by Native Americans in prehistoric times, when explorers and settlers began entering Kentucky in the mid-1700s, there were no major Native American settlements in the region. Instead, the country was used as hunting grounds by Shawnees from the north and Cherokees from the south. Much of what is now Kentucky was purchased from Native Americans in the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1768) and Sycamore Shoals (1775). Thereafter, Kentucky grew rapidly as the first settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains were founded, with settlers (primarily from Virginia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania) entering the region via the Cumberland Gap and the Ohio River. The most famous of these early explorers and settlers was Daniel Boone, traditionally considered one of the founders of the state. Shawnees north of the Ohio River, however, were unhappy about the settlement of Kentucky, and allied themselves with the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Kentucky was a battleground during the war; the Battle of Blue Licks, one of the last major battles of the Revolution, was fought in Kentucky.



After the American Revolution, the counties of Virginia beyond the Appalachian Mountains became known as Kentucky County. Eventually, the residents of Kentucky County petitioned for a separation from Virginia. Ten constitutional conventions were held in the Constitution Square Courthouse in Danville between 1784 and 1792. In 1790, Kentucky's delegates accepted Virginia's terms of separation, and a state constitution was drafted at the final convention in April 1792. On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state to be admitted to the union and Isaac Shelby, a military veteran from Virginia, was elected the first Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.



Kentucky was a border state during the American Civil War. Although frequently described as never having seceded, a group of Kentucky soldiers stationed at Russellville did pass an Ordinance of Secession under the moniker "Convention of the People of Kentucky" on November 20, 1861, establishing a Confederate government for the state with its capital in Bowling Green. Though Kentucky was represented by the central star on the Confederate battle flag., the legitimacy of the Russellville Convention may well be questioned, as only a year earlier, philosopher Karl Marx records in a letter to Friedrich Engels that the result of a vote deciding how Kentucky would be represented at a convention of the border states was "100,000 for the Union ticket, only a few thousand for secession." Kentucky officially remained "neutral" throughout the war due to Union sympathies of many of the Commonwealth's citizens. Even today, however, Confederate Memorial Day is observed by some in Kentucky on Jefferson Davis' birthday, June 3.



On January 30, 1900, Governor William Goebel was mortally wounded by an assailant while in the process of contesting the election of 1899, initially assumed to be won by William S. Taylor. For several months, J. C. W. Beckham, Goebel's running mate, and Taylor fought over who was the real governor until the Supreme Court of the United States decided in May that Beckham was the rightful governor. Taylor fled to Indiana and was later indicted as a co-conspirator in Goebel's assassination. Goebel remains the only governor of a U.S. state to have been assassinated while in office.

City/Town : Latitude: 37.5, Longitude: -85


Birth

Matches 1 to 30 of 30

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID   Tree 
1 Elizabeth  Aft 1825Kentucky, USA I451294 Nederlandse voorouders 
2 Ellen  Dec 1855Kentucky, USA I453088 Nederlandse voorouders 
3 Frances  Abt 1850Kentucky, USA I449563 Nederlandse voorouders 
4 Gladys  Abt 1907Kentucky, USA I47447 Nederlandse voorouders 
5 B, Edna  Wed 31 May 1899Kentucky, USA I47450 Nederlandse voorouders 
6 Barryman, Mary Jane  Abt 1870Kentucky, USA I449579 Nederlandse voorouders 
7 Bratcher, Iva Ree  Mon 14 Oct 1878Kentucky, USA I453318 Nederlandse voorouders 
8 Edwards, Minerva  Abt 1838Kentucky, USA I449392 Nederlandse voorouders 
9 Fielder, Charles  Abt 1873Kentucky, USA I449565 Nederlandse voorouders 
10 Fielder, Gilbert  Abt 1897Kentucky, USA I449581 Nederlandse voorouders 
11 Fielder, Henry  Abt 1875Kentucky, USA I449566 Nederlandse voorouders 
12 Fielder, John W.  Abt 1899Kentucky, USA I449582 Nederlandse voorouders 
13 Fielder, Lela  Abt 1891Kentucky, USA I449580 Nederlandse voorouders 
14 Fielder, Sally  Abt 1872Kentucky, USA I449564 Nederlandse voorouders 
15 Fielder, Talton  Abt 1800Kentucky, USA I449406 Nederlandse voorouders 
16 Gano, Alene Stone  Sat 14 Jul 1883Kentucky, USA I673668 Nederlandse voorouders 
17 Johnson, John  Abt 1857Kentucky, USA I451297 Nederlandse voorouders 
18 Johnson, Susan  Abt 1850Kentucky, USA I451295 Nederlandse voorouders 
19 Johnson, Telitha  Abt 1853Kentucky, USA I451296 Nederlandse voorouders 
20 Johnson, Thomas  Abt 1861Kentucky, USA I451299 Nederlandse voorouders 
21 Johnson, William  Abt 1858Kentucky, USA I451298 Nederlandse voorouders 
22 Keller, Charlie Fred  Fri 25 Apr 1879Kentucky, USA I454103 Nederlandse voorouders 
23 Moores, Lucinda  Abt 1812Kentucky, USA I449553 Nederlandse voorouders 
24 Morgan, James H.  Dec 1843Kentucky, USA I453087 Nederlandse voorouders 
25 Morton, Elizabeth  Abt 1800Kentucky, USA I449407 Nederlandse voorouders 
26 Neal, Patricia Louise  Wed 20 Jan 1926Kentucky, USA I676132 Nederlandse voorouders 
27 Oglesby, Harmen Cardwell  Wed 26 Oct 1910Kentucky, USA I731608 Nederlandse voorouders 
28 Parker, Lucille  Mon 14 Dec 1896Kentucky, USA I739692 Nederlandse voorouders 
29 R, Katherine  Sun 27 Feb 1910Kentucky, USA I47446 Nederlandse voorouders 
30 Snowden, Susannah  1808Kentucky, USA I452037 Nederlandse voorouders 

Death

Matches 1 to 3 of 3

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Death    Person ID   Tree 
1 Fielder, Francis Marion  Bef 1893Kentucky, USA I449415 Nederlandse voorouders 
2 Fielder, Paulina  Thu 14 Mar 1901Kentucky, USA I449416 Nederlandse voorouders 
3 Newsom, Hosea  Sat 04 Feb 1843Kentucky, USA I454252 Nederlandse voorouders 

Marriage

Matches 1 to 2 of 2

   Family    Marriage    Family ID   Tree 
1 Fielder / Edwards  Sat 13 Jan 1855Kentucky, USA F175341 Nederlandse voorouders 
2 Fielder / Johnson  1886Kentucky, USA F175354 Nederlandse voorouders 

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