When Sarah E. Riggleman was born in 1824, in West Virginia, United States, her father, John William Riggleman II, was 28 and her mother, Sarah “Sally” Mason, was 20.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Americanized form of German Riegelmann: topographic name for a farmer owning a long strip of land or for someone who lived near a watershed or a mountain blocking a valley.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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