When Christenia Frances Dalton was born on 2 August 1829, in Stokes, North Carolina, United States, her father, Absalom Bostick Dalton, was 24 and her mother, Nancy Poindexter, was 23. She married Rufus Hix Massey in 1850, in Stokes, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Tebo Township, Henry, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 11 February 1896, in Henry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton Township, Henry, Missouri, 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.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Dalton in Westmorland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: The surname was taken to Ireland by English traders in the early 13th century .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesMissouri, the Center State. Page 85 Under the heading THOMAS W. OGG: Thomas W. Ogg, now living retired in Clinton, was for many years actively engaged in general agricultural pursuits in Henry county …
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