When Mary Polly Gearhart was born on 18 February 1805, in Virginia, United States, her father, William Gearhart, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Wright, was 18. She married William Teel on 9 October 1827, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 29 June 1899, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Franklin, Virginia, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
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 Gerhardt .
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