When William James Rousseau was born on 1 June 1829, in Lincoln, Tennessee, United States, his father, Hillaire Thomas Rousseau, was 26 and his mother, Lucretia Jennings, was 19. He married Geraldine Malissa Harrison on 1 March 1853, in Bibb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Beat 1, Oktibbeha, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Oktibbeha, Mississippi, United States in 1910. He died on 16 February 1916, in Starkville, Oktibbeha, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Starkville, Oktibbeha, Mississippi, 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.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Some characteristic forenames: French Lucien, Pierre, Emile, Marcel, Armand, Andre, Jacques, Michel, Normand, Gilles, Philippe, Adrien.
French and Walloon: nickname for a red-haired man, from a diminutive of Old French ro(u)s ‘red’ (see Roux and Leroux ). This surname is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium, in Haiti, and in South Africa. Compare Rosseau and Russeau .
History: This surname is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors. The Huguenot ancestor was Théodore de Rousseau, who arrived with his son Hillaire at Manakin, VA, in the early 1700s. — The South African bearers of the surname Rousseau trace their origin to Pierre Rousseau from Mer, France, who arrived in the Dutch Cape Colony in 1688. He is recognized as a French Huguenot ancestor by the Huguenot Society of South Africa. However, his descendants mainly bear the altered form of the name, Rossouw.
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