Brief Life History of Josiah Hans Gordon
When Josiah Hans Gordon Keckler was born on 16 February 1829, in Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johann Keckler, was 36 and his mother, Rosanna Susan Gordon, was 25. He married Juliette Parcher on 4 April 1873, in Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States for about 20 years and Ohio, United States in 1918. He died on 24 August 1918, in Bucyrus Township, Crawford, Ohio, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States.
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- Josiah Keckler in household of Adam Wimemiller, "United States Census, 1870"
- Josiah H.g. Kechler, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Josiah Hans Gordon Keckler, "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
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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.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Altered form of German Kechler, an occupational name for a potter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kachel ‘clay pot, tile’. Later it came to denote a stove fitter who built the typical Bavarian and Austrian tile stoves.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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