Brief Life History of Christina
When Christina Keckler was born on 13 July 1825, in Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Johann Abraham Keckler, was 34 and her mother, Maria Catherine Arendt, was 32.
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- Christina Geckler, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Christina Geckler, "Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
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World Events (8)
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.
1830 · The Oregon Trail
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
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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