When Mary Petway Ingram was born on 3 June 1808, in Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas Benjamin Ingram, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Petway Hunnicutt, was 17. She married Abraham Lewis Venable I on 20 December 1827, in Sparta, Hancock, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Coosa, Alabama, United States in 1850. She died on 22 December 1878, in Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, United States, at the age of 70.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Historical Boundaries 1817: Montgomery, Alabama Territory, United States 1819: Montgomery, Alabama, United States
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 (of Norman origin): from the Anglo-Norman personal name Ingeram (Old French Enguerran, Engerran; ancient Germanic Engelramnus, Ingelramnus, Engelrammus, Ingelrammus), from the heroic name-element seen in such names as Ingle + hrafn- ‘raven’.
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