When Margaret Churchman was born on 8 June 1807, in Chester Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Edward Churchman, was 50 and her mother, Rebecca Peirce, was 41. She married William White Mendenhall on 1 January 1827, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 2 July 1828, in Concordville, Concord Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Concord Friends Cemetery, Concordville, Concord Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
English: from Middle English chirch(e)man ‘clergyman; churchwarden; lay official responsible for church finances’. The earliest examples would have denoted a custodian or keeper of a church (Old English cyriceman), not a clergyman, though the earlier sense had probably been superseded by the time the surname arose.
Possibly an Americanized form (translation into English) of German Kirchmann (see Kirchman ).
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