Brief Life History of Barbara Alzena
When Barbara Alzena Johnston was born in 1828, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States, her father, James Harvey Johnston Sr, was 47 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Johnson, was 39. She married John Berryman Fletcher about 1847, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Jefferson, Ashe, North Carolina, United States in 1870. She died after 1870, and was buried in Ashe, North Carolina, United States.
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- Barbary Fletcher, "United States Census, 1870"
- Barbara Alzena Johnston Fletcher, "Find A Grave Index"
- Barbara Johnston Fletcher in entry for Rev James Floyd Fletcher, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name, deriving in most cases from the place so called in Annandale, in Dumfriesshire. This is derived from the genitive case of the personal name John + + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn). There are other places in Scotland so called, including the city of Perth, which used to be known as Saint John's Toun, and some of these may also be sources of the surname.
English: habitational name from Johnson Hall (Staffordshire), recorded as Johannestonc. 1233 and Joneston in 1314. The placename means ‘John's settlement’, from the genitive case of the Middle English personal name Johan, Jon (see John ) + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’.
History: As far as can be ascertained, most Scottish bearers of this surname are descendants of John, probably a Norman baron from England, who held lands at Johnstone in Annandale from the Bruce family in the late 12th century. His son Gilbert was the first to take the surname Johnstone and their descendants later held the earldom of Annandale.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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