When Massey Bray was born on 20 January 1806, in Warren, Ohio, United States, her father, Henry B. Bray Sr, was 50 and her mother, Keziah Huff Jones, was 44. She married Jacob Addison Hadley on 11 September 1824, in Morgan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Buena Vista Township, Jasper, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Iowa, United States in 1870. She died on 29 September 1879, in Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Center Friends Cemetery, Jasper, Jasper, Iowa, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1823: Delaware, Indiana, United States 1823: Hamilton, Indiana, United States
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 any of the places in Berkshire and Devon. The former is probably named with Old French bray ‘marsh’, the latter from the Cornish element bre ‘hill’.
English: perhaps a topographic name from northern Middle English bra ‘steep (river) bank’ or ‘brow of a hill’, denoting someone who lived at such a place.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy or Picardy called Bray (Eure, Calvados, Aisne, Somme); see 6.
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