When Martha Holt was born in October 1825, in Blount, Alabama, United States, her father, William Charles Holt, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Hoglin, was 20. She married William Hill on 1 March 1856. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 10 Rockwood, Franklin, Alabama, United States in 1880 and Hackleburg, Marion, Alabama, United States in 1900. She died about 1910, at the age of 86.
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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.
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English, North German, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a small wood, from Middle English, Middle Low German, Danish, and Norwegian holt, or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word. In England, the surname is widely distributed, but more common in Lancashire and Yorkshire than elsewhere.
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