George Washington Lake

Brief Life History of George Washington

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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Family Time Line

George Washington Lake
1825–1907
Susanna M Newell
1824–1901
Marriage: 12 March 1852
Eliza Ellen Lake
1854–1922
George Washington Lake JR
1854–1913
Margaret Ann Lake
1856–1915
William J Lake
1858–1859
Flora Jane Lake
1860–1887
Elmer Ellesworth Lake
1862–1921
Oliver Cromwell Lake
1863–1901
Charles Washington Lake
1867–1944

Sources (18)

  • Geo W Lake, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: George Washington Lake - birth: 1825; Ohio, United States
  • G. W. Lake, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

World Events (8)

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.

1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated

On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.

1848

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.

Name Meaning

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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