When Elizabeth W Pegram was born on 16 August 1825, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, her father, George Pegram, was 30 and her mother, Elisabeth "Betsy" Knott, was 25. She married Elisha M Pegram on 7 January 1851, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Oak Ridge, Guilford, North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Palmyra, Warren, Iowa, United States in 1880. She died on 29 August 1879, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Stokesdale, Guilford, North Carolina, 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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (mainly Cambridgeshire): variant of Pilgrim .
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