When Sarah Anna D. Bentley was born on 22 August 1812, in Queensbury, Queensbury, Warren, New York, United States, her father, Richard Bentley, was 35 and her mother, Dianah Vaughn, was 28. She married John Russell Twiss on 14 September 1834, in Queensbury, Queensbury, Warren, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Brookfield Township, Clinton, Iowa, United States for about 20 years. She died on 6 December 1880, in Clinton, Clinton, Iowa, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Clinton, Clinton, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1813: Warren, New York, United States
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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