Brief Life History of Dempsey
When Dempsey Lundy was born on 7 January 1822, in Center MM, Clinton, Ohio, United States, his father, Amos Lundy, was 38 and his mother, Susanna Betts, was 33. He married Nancy M Wright on 29 July 1841, in Clinton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Jefferson Township, Clinton, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died in 1860, in Clinton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Martinsville, Clark Township, Clinton, Ohio, United States.
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- Dempsey Lundy, "United States Census, 1850"
- Demsey Lundry, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Dempsey Lundy, "Find A Grave Index"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places called Lundie, for example one near Doune in Perthshire.
Irish: topographic name from Anglo-Norman French de la Launde ‘of the glade’. Compare Lown 1.
Americanized form of Norwegian Lunde .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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