When Stephen Morgan Honeycutt was born on 17 April 1826, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Honeycutt, was 37 and his mother, Susannah Byrd, was 34. He married Sallie Emmaline Lewis about 1845, in Yancey, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Reems Creek Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died in 1908, in Fairmount, Gordon, Georgia, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Hopewell Baptist Cemetery, Oakman, Gordon, Georgia, 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.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Cass, Georgia, United States 1850: Gordon, Georgia, United States
English: habitational name from either of two places in Devon named Hunnacott, from either the Old English personal name Hunā or Old English hunig ‘honey’ + cot ‘cottage’. There is also a place called Huncoat in Lancashire, which has the same origin, but the distribution of the surname in England suggests that it probably did not contribute to the surname.
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