When Mercy Shaw was born on 1 August 1825, in Wayne, Indiana, United States, her father, Jonathan Shaw, was 38 and her mother, Elizabeth Spurlock, was 37. She married John Alexander Moorman on 23 May 1849, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Monroe Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Farmland, Monroe Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 4 August 1902, in Randolph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Maxville, White River Township, Randolph, Indiana, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1832: Randolph, Indiana, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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