When Sarah Remsberger was born on 17 February 1810, in Jefferson, Ohio, United States, her father, Johannes Remsberger Sr., was 50 and her mother, Maria Christina Springer, was 36. She married Joseph Bontrager on 26 February 1829, in Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Goshen, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died on 17 November 1875, in DeKalb, Indiana, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Hamilton, Otsego Township, Steuben, Indiana, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Historical Boundaries: 1823: Hamilton, Indiana, United States
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.
Probably an altered form of German Ramsperger or Ramsberger, habitational names for someone from any of several places in southern Germany called Ramsberg.
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