When George Abraham Keckler was born on 13 May 1828, in Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johann Abraham Keckler, was 37 and his mother, Maria Catherine ARENDT, was 35. He married Elizabeth Shipp on 10 October 1850. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died on 25 April 1872, in Dickinson, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Newville, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, 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.
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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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