When Nancy W Sayers was born on 25 November 1827, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, Robert Floyd Sayers, was 22 and her mother, Martha McMillan, was 26. She married Andrew Jackson Kerr on 22 April 1849. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Jackson Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 20 August 1864, in Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Shippingport, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1830: Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
English: variant of Sayer , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This name is also established in Ireland.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair; see Sears .
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