When Lois Ann Langworthy was born on 16 December 1807, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Amos Langworthy Jr., was 42 and her mother, Susannah Witter, was 40. She married Gardner Nichols on 6 December 1827, in Seventh Day Baptist Church, Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Rhode Island, United States in 1870. She died on 29 November 1876, in Hope Valley, Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.
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 (Devon): habitational name from either of two places in Devon called Langworthy, from Old English lang ‘long’ + worthig ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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