Marsh

Male1830–1832

Brief Life History of Marsh

When Marsh was born in 1830, in Ohio, United States, his father, Walter Marsh, was 36 and his mother, Louisa Meeker, was 34. He died in 1832, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 2.

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Family Time Line

Walter Marsh
1794–1847
Louisa Meeker
1796–1847
Mr. Marsh
1818–1830
Jane P Marsh
1820–1847
Miss Marsh
1828–
Lucius Marsh
1822–1850
Amanda Marsh
1824–
Joseph Marsh
1826–1856
Marsh
1830–1832
Mary Elizabeth Marsh
1836–1907

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    World Events (3)

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 0

    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.

    1830 · The Oregon Trail

    Age 0

    Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.

    1832 · Black Hawk War

    Age 2

    "The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."

    Name Meaning

    Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name for someone who lived on a patch of marshy ground, from Middle English mersche (Old English mersc). It is also used as an informal short form of Marshall , and possibly also as a masculine equivalent of Marsha , by back-formation.

    Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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