Brief Life History of Ganelda W
When Ganelda W Brockett was born in 1828, in Lenoir, North Carolina, United States, her father, Hiram Brockett Sir, was 29 and her mother, Anna Marie Robinson, was 24. She married Felix Kenyon Turner about 1843, in Lenoir, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Jones, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and Woodington, Lenoir, North Carolina, United States in 1860. She died in 1872, at the age of 44.
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- Ganelda Turner in household of Felix Turner, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ganelda Brockett - Published information: death:
- Gaynell Heath in entry for Allethia C. West, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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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.
1830 · Trail of Tears
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place called Brocket in Ayrshire.
English (of Norman origin): from Middle English bro(c)ket, a term denoting a stag in its second year with its first horns (diminutive of Old French brock), probably applied as a nickname.
History: John Brockett (died 1690) was one of the founders of New Haven, CT, in 1637/8.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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