When Mary Estella Beckstead was born on 28 April 1829, in Prescott, Grenville, Canada West, British North America, her father, George J Beckstead, was 33 and her mother, Dinah Annes Middaugh Beckstead, was 22. She married George Elton Pollitt on 21 June 1849, in Lewistown, Fulton, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Banner, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Banner Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 20 October 1916, in Canton, Fulton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Pollitt Cemetery, Liverpool, Fulton, Illinois, 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.
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Americanized form of North German Beckstedde or Beckstedt: topographic name from Low German Beck ‘stream’ + -stedde ‘place’, or a habitational name from Beckstedt near Wildeshausen, Oldenburg.
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