When Margaret Westbrook was born on 13 December 1807, in Missouri, United States, her father, Richard Derik Westbrook, was 47 and her mother, Elizabeth Lydia McKinstry, was 40. She married Silas Burke Farris on 14 March 1830, in High Point, Moniteau, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Moniteau, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 19 February 1879, in High Point, Moniteau, Missouri, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Gray Cemetery, Harrison Township, Moniteau, Missouri, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
English (southeastern): habitational name from any of various places called Westbrook, for example in Berkshire, Kent, and the Isle of Wight, from Old English west ‘west, western’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’.
Americanized form of Dutch Westbroek: habitational name from a place so named near Utrecht.
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