James Dennis York was born in 1815, in Ohio, United States as the son of William York and Sarah. He married Beth Ruth Shaw on 30 June 1837, in Crawford, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Atchison, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Illinois, United States in 1870. He died in 1870, at the age of 55.
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Historical Boundaries: 1816: Crawford, Illinois Territory, United States 1818: Crawford, Illinois, United States
Illinois is the 21st state.
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.
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
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