When Emaline Dobbs was born about 1828, in Harris, Georgia, United States, her father, Samuel George Dobbs, was 28 and her mother, Lucinda Lourany Harrington, was 28. She married Absolum George Dorrough on 17 February 1848, in Harris, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Sterrett, Shelby, Alabama, United States in 1860 and Cleburne, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died after 1880, in Alabama, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Shelby, Alabama, United States
English: variant of Dobb , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, from the medieval personal name Dobb(e), a rhyming pet form of Robert .
History: Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765) was born at Castle Dobbs, County Antrim, Ireland. In 1745 he purchased 400,000 acres of land in NC and was selected as governor in 1754. He married twice and his second wife, wed when he was age 73, was a girl in her teens from NC.
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