When Jemima Jane Hughes was born on 22 February 1825, in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States, her father, Ennis James Hughes, was 30 and her mother, Mary Ann McCain, was 30. She married Snider Mason Samford on 29 February 1844. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Shelby, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Texas, United States in 1870. She died on 1 July 1889, in Center, Shelby, Texas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Center, Shelby, Texas, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Shelby, Republic of Texas 1845: Shelby, Texas, United States
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.
Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .
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