When Elizabeth Upchurch was born on 30 November 1814, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Samuel Upchurch, was 42 and her mother, Mary Ellen Simmons, was 42. She married Charles Joseph Thompson on 19 November 1840, in Gallatin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Saline, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 11 June 1874, at the age of 59.
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Illinois is the 21st state.
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.
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.
English: habitational name from a place called as ‘the high church’ or possibly the higher of two churches, from Middle English up ‘up, high, higher’ + chirche ‘church’ (Old English upp + cirice). There is a village of this name in Kent, near Chatham, but the geographical distribution of the surname suggests its origin is in Huntingdonshire or Cambridgeshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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