When Catherine Wear was born in 1828, in Warren, Ohio, United States, her father, Robert Weir, was 36 and her mother, Catharine Pope Wier, was 35. She married Asbury Phillip Hacker on 28 December 1848, in Shelby, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died in 1906, in Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, 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.
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
English (Northumbria):
topographic name for someone who lived by the Wear river in northeastern England. The river name is ancient, occuring in the form Vedra in Ptolemy's Geographia; it is probably from a Celtic word meaning ‘water’.
topographic name for someone who lived near a dam or weir, a variant of Ware 1, or a habitational name from a place called Weare, in Devon and Somerset, from Old English wær, wer ‘weir’.
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