Brief Life History of Josiah Wesley
When Josiah Wesley Leffingwell was born on 6 May 1825, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, his father, Gurdon Leffingwell, was 28 and his mother, Hulda E. Smith, was 28. He married Martha A Hills on 24 July 1848, in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States. He lived in Harrison, Winnebago, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Illinois, United States in 1870. He died on 11 April 1877, in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Shirland Cemetery, Shirland Township, Winnebago, Illinois, United States.
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- Josiah Seffenwell, "United States Census, 1850"
- Josiah Leffingwell, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Josiah W. Leffingwell, "Find A Grave Index"
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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
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Winnebago, Illinois, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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