Brief Life History of Lovisa
When Lovisa Phelps was born on 8 February 1828, in Pike, Wyoming, New York, United States, her father, James Phelps, was 39 and her mother, Phoebe Resseguie, was 35. She married Hartley W Fox on 13 February 1847. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Franklinville, Cattaraugus, New York, United States in 1850 and Freedom, Cattaraugus, New York, United States for about 25 years. She died from 1892 to 1900, in New York, United States.
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- Louisa Fox in household of Hartley Fox, "United States Census, 1850"
- Louisa Fox in household of Hartley W Fox, "New York State Census, 1875"
- Louisa Fox in household of Hartley W Fox, "New York State Census, 1855"
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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.
1841
Historical Boundaries 1841: Wyoming, New York, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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