When Thomas C. Baggett was born in 1828, in Georgia, United States, his father, Bennett J. Baggett, was 32 and his mother, Mary Sikes, was 27. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Jansea Morning Ellis. He lived in Powder Springs, Cobb, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Randolph, Bibb, Alabama, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1863. He died on 17 July 1863, in Fort Delaware, New Castle, Delaware, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Finns Point National Cemetery, Pennsville Township, Salem, New Jersey, 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 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.
A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
English (of Norman origin): from the Norman personal name Bagot, a diminutive of ancient Germanic Bago, from the root bag- ‘to fight’. Compare Bagg 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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