When Elizabeth Neeley Adair was born on 13 August 1825, in Cherokee, Georgia, United States, her father, Walter Scott Adair, was 34 and her mother, Nancy Nerche Harris, was 18. She married Timothy Meigs Walker in 1843, in Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 31 July 1908, in Fort Gibson, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Fort Gibson, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 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.
Historical Boundaries 1831: Cherokee, Georgia, United States
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish: from the Scottish personal name Adair, a form of Edgar .
History: James Adair (c. 1709–83) was an ‘Indian trader’ in SC from 1735; he was born in Antrim, northern Ireland. Baron William Adair, from Scotland, also settled in SC at around the same period.
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