Brief Life History of Elisabeth
When Elisabeth Cassell was born on 9 September 1828, in Indiana, United States, her father, Peter Cassel Jr., was 29 and her mother, Martha Chitwood, was 26. She married James Hook Hall on 3 April 1851, in Madison, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Eight Mile Grove, Murray, Cass, Nebraska, United States in 1870 and Mount Pleasant Election Precinct, Cass, Nebraska, United States for about 5 years. She died on 27 July 1893, in Cass, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Plattsmouth, Cass, Nebraska, United States.
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- Elizabeth Castle in household of Martha Castle, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elisabeth Cassell - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Elizabeth Castell
- Elizabeth Hall, "Find A Grave Index"
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1829
Find A Grave Memorials shows the earliest burial in this cemetery was in 1829, Memorial ID#99404918.
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
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: habitational name of Norman origin, from Cassel in the Nord department, Flanders, France.
English: sometimes a variant of Castle .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Caisile, which is probably in origin a variant of Ó Caiside, see Cassidy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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