When Eliza Ann Campbell was born on 21 January 1826, in New York, United States, her father, Nathaniel Campbell, was 27 and her mother, Lucretia Murray, was 21. She married William Henry Fancher on 28 May 1846, in Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years and Blair Township, Washington, Nebraska, United States in 1885. She died on 14 September 1887, in Blair, Washington, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Blair Cemetery, Blair, Washington, Nebraska, United States.
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During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
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