Brief Life History of Philena
When Philena Foster was born on 22 October 1807, in Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, William Baker Foster, was 26 and her mother, Eleanor Ward, was 21. She married Warren Millard on 25 April 1826, in Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years and Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. She died on 2 November 1884, at the age of 77.
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- Philenia Millard in household of Warren Millard, "Massachusetts State Census, 1855"
- Philena Foster Millard, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Philena Millard, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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