When Levi Eddy was born on 5 January 1805, in Solon, Somerset, Maine, United States, his father, John Fuller Eddy, was 30 and his mother, Rhoda Eddy, was 23. He married Laura Lewis in 1824, in Wyoming, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Burlington, Kane, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Liberty Township, Buchanan, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died on 25 March 1885, in Buchanan, Iowa, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Quasqueton Cemetery, Quasqueton, Buchanan, Iowa, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1809: Somerset, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Somerset, Maine, United States
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.
Cornish: from the personal name Edy (pronounced ‘eedy’), a variant of Udy , from the Middle English personal name Ude, Udy, Latinized as Udo and Odo. It may represent Old French Eude (ancient Germanic Eudo, of uncertain etymology), whose usual Latin form is Eudo. This agrees with later evidence that the original pronunciation of the initial vowel of Udy was /y:/ (as in French tu), though in the 16th century it was sometimes unrounded to /i:/, spelled -e(e)-. It was later altered to Eddy.
English: variant of Eady .
English: perhaps from a shortened form of the Middle English personal name Edwy (Old English Ēadwīg, from ēad ‘prosperity, fortune’ + wīg ‘war’), which has not survived in that form as a surname.
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