When Willis Sellers Loy was born on 16 May 1806, in Orange, North Carolina, United States, his father, Martin Luther Loy, was 30 and his mother, Mary Sellers, was 25. He married Levicy Margaret Turner on 17 December 1828, in Adair, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He lived in Marion Township, Harrison, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Hamilton Township, Harrison, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 18 July 1888, in Harrison, Missouri, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Memorial West Cemetery, Eagleville, Harrison, Missouri, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1821: Sangamon, Illinois, United States
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.
German, Dutch, and French: from a shortened form of the medieval personal name Eloy, from Latin Eligius (see Eligio ), a Christian saint's name.
German: habitational name from Loy in Oldenburg.
Italian (Sardinia): variant of Loi .
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