When Mary M Burlingame was born on 11 November 1826, in Hiramsburg, Morgan, Ohio, United States, her father, Asa Franklin Burlingame Sr., was 40 and her mother, Sarah Ellen Severance, was 35. She married William Paxton Posten on 12 December 1846, in Morgan, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Equality Township, Miller, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Saline Township, Miller, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 25 May 1892, in Eldon, Miller, Missouri, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Salem Cemetery, Saline Township, Miller, Missouri, 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: 1837: Miller, Missouri, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: habitational name from Burlingham in Norfolk ‘homestead (Old English hām) of Bærla's or Byrla's people’, or from Birlingham in Worcestershire ‘enclosure (Old English hamm) of Byrla's people’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
History: Joel Burlingame was a Methodist exhorter and lay preacher at New Berlin, NY, in the 1820s. His son Anson Burlingame, born in New Berlin in 1820, headed the first diplomatic mission to China and negotiated the Burlingame Treaty (1868).
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