When Martha Jane Kimsey was born on 3 June 1829, in North Carolina, United States, her father, James G Kimsey, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Ruth Russell, was 24. She married Charles Henderson Carroll about 1850, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and District 990, Towns, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died on 24 March 1891, in Hayesville, Clay, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Hayesville Baptist-Presbyterian Cemetery, Hayesville, Clay, North Carolina, United States.
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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.
In 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (Hertfordshire): variant of Kempsey, a habitational name from a place called Kempsey in Worcestershire. The placename derives from an Old English personal name Cemmi (genitive Cemmes) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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