When Anna Maria Finch was born on 9 September 1827, in Cairo, Greene, New York, United States, her father, Ira Finch, was 30 and her mother, Cornelia Bush, was 20. She married James Burroughs in 1860, in Greene, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Catskill, Catskill, Greene, New York, United States for about 45 years. She died on 21 July 1906, in Cairo, Greene, New York, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cairo, Greene, New York, 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.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: nickname from Middle English finch, fink ‘finch’ (Old English finc), for a small, lively, cheerful person.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Czech, Slovenian, and Croatian Fink ‘finch’, or of some of the corresponding Slavic surnames, e.g. Czech (Moravian) Pěnka (see Penka ).
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