When David Edward McCleary was born on 5 March 1807, in Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States, his father, William McCleary, was 35 and his mother, Rachel Johnson, was 32. He married Celia Colyar on 15 September 1835, in Elkhart, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Prairie Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. He died on 7 April 1888, in Kosciusko, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Leesburg Cemetery, Plain Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
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.
Irish (northern) and Scottish:
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Chléirigh (Irish), or Mac a'Chléirich (Scottish) ‘son of the cleric’. See Cleary .
Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Arraith ‘son of the servant of Arraith’, or possibly (since there is no saint Arráith) of Mac Giolla an Ráith ‘son of the prosperous youth’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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