When Rebecca Hinthorn was born on 18 December 1828, in Charlestown, Charlestown Township, Clark, Indiana, United States, her father, Stephen Downard Henthorn, was 36 and her mother, Nancy Neighbarger, was 24. She married John Martin Luther Trimmer on 1 July 1846, in McLean, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Hudson, McLean, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Normal, McLean, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 22 November 1905, in Money Creek Township, McLean, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Towanda, McLean, Illinois, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1836: McLean, Illinois, United States
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Henthorn in Whalley (Lancashire), from Old English henn ‘hen’ + Thyrne ‘thorn bush’.
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