When Nancy Jane Adkins was born on 5 June 1825, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Adkins, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Alexander, was 44. She married Joel R. Cox on 11 February 1843, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Lewis Fork Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and Elk Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States in 1900. She died after 1 June 1900, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, and was buried in Ferguson, Wilkes, 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.
English: from the Middle English personal name Adkin (a pet form of Adam formed with the suffix -kin) + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This name was particularly common in the English Midlands. Compare Atkins .
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