When Elizabeth Custer was born on 13 March 1806, in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States, her father, John Custer, was 31 and her mother, Susannah Grossnickel, was 31. She married Abraham Newland on 19 May 1824, in Warren, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Hopewell Township, Mercer, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Minerva, Marshall, Iowa, United States in 1880. She died in February 1891, in Marshall, Iowa, United States, at the age of 84.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
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.
Americanized form of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster 1).
Swiss German: variant of Kuster .
English and Scottish (of Norman origin): occupational name from Old French coustier (masculine), coustiere (feminine), for a maker of feather beds or cushions.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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