Brief Life History of Lucy Ann
When Lucy Ann Spangler was born in 1829, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jonathan Spangler, was 25 and her mother, Susanna Yerger, was 21. She married Johannes "John" Hoffman in 1855, in Arendtsville, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Union Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. She died on 5 August 1857, at the age of 28, and was buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Arendtsville, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Lucy Ann Spangler in household of Jonathan Spangler, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lucy Ann Hoffman, "Find A Grave Index"
- Lucy Ann Hoffman, "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
German (Bavaria): originally an occupational name for a maker of buckles, from an agent derivative of a diminutive of Middle High German spange ‘clasp, buckle, ornamental fastening’, later coming to mean ‘tinsmith, plumber’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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