When Susan Mourning Mansfield was born on 17 February 1825, in Caldwell, Kentucky, United States, her father, James Wilkerson Mansfield, was 31 and her mother, Mildred Clark, was 28. She married Presley Allen Reece on 5 June 1841, in Caldwell, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Green Township, Platte, Missouri, United States in 1850 and St. Charles, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died on 1 October 1867, in Saint Charles, Missouri, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, St. Charles, Saint Charles, Missouri, 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.
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
Historical Boundaries 1838: Platte create from Non-County Areas 28 and 12
English: habitational name from a place so named in Nottinghamshire. The placename means ‘open land by the river Maun’, from the river name Maun (which may take its name from a hill named with Old English mamme ‘teat’) + Old English feld ‘open country’.
Irish (Waterford): when not an importation of 1, this is an altered form of the Norman name de Manville (see Mandeville 3).
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Mansfeld, a habitational name from a place so called in Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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