Brief Life History of Almeda Lianda
When Almeda Lianda Woods was born on 21 October 1829, in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Salem Woods, was 30 and her mother, Cornelia Grow, was 25. She married John Randolph Hall on 6 August 1846, in Pennington Point, McDonough, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in New Salem Township, McDonough, Illinois, United States for about 20 years and Farmers Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 4 May 1921, in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Pennington Point, McDonough, Illinois, United States.
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- Almeda Hall, "United States Census, 1900"
- Almeda L Woods Hall, "Find A Grave Index"
- Almeda Woods in entry for L. Grove Hall, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
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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.
1833
Historical Boundaries: 1833: Greene, Missouri, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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