Brief Life History of Pleasant
When Pleasant Goin was born in 1808, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, his father, Levi Goins, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Stalions, was 27. He married Isabella Norvell in 1832, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870. He died in 1880, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Pleasant Point Cemetery, Goin, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States.
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- Pleasant Goin, "United States Census, 1830"
- Pleasant Goin, "Find A Grave Index"
- Pleasant Louis in entry for Marlena Johnson, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
Name Meaning
Altered form of Irish or English Gowen .
French: variant of Gouin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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