Brief Life History of Abigail
When Abigail Maynard was born on 29 January 1829, in White, Tennessee, United States, her father, Andrew Maynard, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Williams, was 19. She married Henry Gambrell in 1846, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died in 1895, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States.
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- Abigail Gambol, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Abagail Maynard - Government record: Citizenship record: birth: about 1829; White, Tennessee, United States
- Abigail Maynard Gambrell, "Find a Grave Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
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.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
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.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Mainard (from ancient Germanic Maganhard, Meginard, from magin- ‘power, might’ + hard- ‘brave, hardy’). Compare Mainard .
Altered form of French Ménard (see Menard ), a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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