When William P. Ramer was born about 1808, in Georgia, United States, his father, John Rimmer, was 32 and his mother, Mary Polley Whitfield, was 27. He married Cleo Ann Hogg about 1833. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Tyler, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Justice Precinct 5, Taylor, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 9 October 1885, in Spurger, Tyler, Texas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Town Bluff, Tyler, Texas, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
A barroom brawl in Savannah on Tuesday, November 12, 1811, had international impact. An American seaman boasted of having joined the crew of a French vessel, likely named La Vengeance. Others became upset at the idea of the American joining a foreign nation and a brawl erupted. The county coroner asked for peace but was beaten with clubs. A second clash occurred the following day when French sailors attacked five American seaman. A day after the second attack, twenty French sailors attacked six Americans. Four of them escaped but two were beaten and stabbed. Jacob Taylor died on the scene and a rigger named Collins died the following day. By Friday, a full scale riot erupted when the French crewmen arrested on murder charges were released. Many were arrested and French ships La Vengeance and La Franchise were burned. In the end, the incident caused disruptions in French-American relations and affected shipping and trade.
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.
German: occupational name, perhaps for a dairy farmer, from Middle High German rom ‘cream’, or for a frame or loom-maker, from Middle High German ram(e) ‘frame, loom’.
Americanized form of German Römer (see Roemer ).
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