When Artemis Spurlock was born in 1808, in Prestonsburg, Floyd, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Whitlock Spurlock Jr, was 48 and her mother, Frances Turman, was 48. She married Pvt. John H. Haywood on 6 November 1824, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Floyd, Kentucky, United States in 1850. She died in 1875, at the age of 67.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
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 (Somerset): probably a post-medieval variant, with prosthetic S-, of Portlock , a habitational name from Porlock (Somerset).
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