When Joshua Pruitt Kent was born on 4 May 1827, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Gay, was 24 and his mother, Martha Gill, was 20. He married Mary Elizabeth Flowers on 7 August 1850, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Civil District 5, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 11, Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 9 November 1905, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 78.
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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.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
English and Irish: habitational name from the county of Kent. The surname is also established in Ireland, where English bearers of this name settled in Meath, in the 13th century. The name has been Gaelicized as Ceannt.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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