Brief Life History of Job B.
When Job B. Kessel was born on 11 September 1807, in Hampshire, Virginia, United States, his father, George Kessel, was 35 and his mother, Catherine Boyer, was 34. He married Frances Bowles on 11 March 1830, in Jackson, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Jackson, Virginia, United States for about 20 years and Ripley District, Jackson, West Virginia, United States in 1880. He died on 29 August 1884, in Jackson, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Parchment Valley, Jackson, West Virginia, United States.
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- Job Kessel, "United States Census, 1840"
- Jacob Kissell, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Job Kessel, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
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
Cornish: variant of Kessell .
German: from Middle High German keʒʒel ‘kettle, cauldron’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of copper cooking vessels, or alternatively a topographic and habitational name, from the same word in the sense ‘(ring-shaped) hollow’.
Dutch (mainly Van Kessel): habitational name for someone from any of the places so named in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg or in the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Limburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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