Brief Life History of Elijah Thompson
When Elijah Thompson Staton was born on 2 May 1826, in Henderson, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Walter Staton, was 31 and his mother, Mary Thompson, was 27. He married A. Elizabeth Capps in 1845. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Green River Township, Henderson, North Carolina, United States for about 30 years. He died on 27 July 1909, in Henderson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mountain Page Baptist Church Cemetery, Mountain Page, Henderson, North Carolina, United States.
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- Thompson Staton, "United States Census, 1860"
- E T Staton, "Find A Grave Index"
- E T Staton in entry for M L Newman, "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000"
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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.
1846
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1853 · First State Fair
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Stathern (Leicestershire), from Old English staca ‘stake’ + thyrne ‘thorn bush’.
variant of Staden, a habitational name from Staden in King Sterndale (Derbyshire), from Old English stæf ‘staff, stave, rod’ + dūn ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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