When George Washington Lake was born on 13 February 1825, in Franklin Township, Jackson, Ohio, United States, his father, Silas W Lake, was 27 and his mother, Eliza Schellenger, was 25. He married Susanna M Newell on 12 March 1852, in Jackson, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hamilton Township, Jackson, Ohio, United States in 1860. He died on 15 September 1907, in Franklin Township, Jackson, Ohio, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Jackson Township, Knox, Ohio, United States.
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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.
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
In 1848, by state legislative action, Knox County lost 3 western townships, South Bloomfield, Chester and Franklin, to Morrow County, leaving Hilliar as the lone original western township.
English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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