When Martha Howser was born about 1800, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Johann Nicholas Valentin Houser, was 52 and her mother, Jane Warner, was 42. She married Silas Redford on 12 July 1832, in Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in Barren, Kentucky, United States, and was buried in Barren, Kentucky, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
The Cane Ridge Revival took place for six days in Cane Ridge, Kentucky. From August 6, 1801- August 12 or 13, 1801, around 20 thousand people gathered together for what was called 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.
Americanized form of German Hauser .
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