Brief Life History of Cynthia Edwards
When Cynthia Edwards Whitney was born in 1829, in Mantua Township, Portage, Ohio, United States, her father, Anson Benjamin Whitney Sr., was 24 and her mother, Mariah Kemble Edwards, was 21. She married John Mills on 15 August 1846, in Scott, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Kansas, United States in 1870. She died in 1875, in Crawford Township, Cherokee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 46.
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- Cynthia A Frazer in household of Silas Frazer, "United States Census, 1870"
- Cyntha M Mills, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- Cynthia Mills in household of John Mills, "United States Census, 1850"
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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.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Whitney in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island, piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’. The name may also derive from Whitney (now Whitney Wood) in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), probably named from Old English hwītan ‘white’ + (ge)hæge ‘enclosure’.
History: John Whitney came from London, England, to Watertown, MA, in 1635, and had numerous prominent descendents.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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