Brief Life History of Frances Herndon
When Frances Herndon Moorman was born on 25 July 1812, in Campbell, Virginia, United States, her father, David Herndon Moorman, was 28 and her mother, Judith Venable Moorman, was 21. She married Peter Skillman in November 1830, in Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. She died on 10 September 1876, at the age of 64, and was buried in Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States.
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- Frances Skillman in household of Peter Skillman, "United States Census, 1850"
- Frances Herndon Moorman Skillman, "Find A Grave Index"
- Frances H. Moorman in entry for Peter M. Shillman, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
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1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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
English (Isle of Wight and Gloucestershire): topographic or occupational name from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ + man ‘man’, either in the sense ‘person who lives on a moor’ or ‘official who is responsible for an area of moor or the grazing on it’.
Dutch: variant of Moerman .
Americanized form of North German Moormann: variant of Mohrmann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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