Brief Life History of Sophia
When Sophia Church was born on 12 June 1798, in Scipio, Seneca, Ohio, United States, her father, Eli Church, was 20 and her mother, Elizabeth Chadwick, was 16. She married Brainard Cleveland on 20 September 1825, in Homer, Homer, Cortland, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 6 June 1834, in her hometown, at the age of 35.
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- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name mostly found in southern and midland England, for someone who lived near a church, or possibly an occupational name for someone who worked at a church, such as a verger or sexton, from Middle English chirche ‘church’. The word comes from Old English cyrice, ultimately from medieval Greek kyrikon, for earlier kyriakōn (dōma) ‘(house) of the Lord’, from kyrios ‘lord’. Compare Kirk .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Kirch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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