Brief Life History of Ruth Plimpton
When Ruth Plimpton Adams was born on 29 October 1826, in Millis, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joseph Adams, was 23 and her mother, Mary Ann Mason, was 21. She married Horace Farnum Howard on 14 August 1847, in Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1860. She died on 23 August 1881, in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Millis, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Ruth P Howard in household of Horace Howard, "United States Census, 1860"
- Ruth P. Adams, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Ruth P. Adams Howard, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924"
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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.
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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