Brief Life History of Jane
When Jane Root was born on 17 February 1807, in Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Henry ROOT, was 39 and her mother, Mary Day, was 34. She married Harvey Austin about 1820, in Napoleon, Napoleon Township, Jackson, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Napoleon, Napoleon Township, Jackson, Michigan, United States in 1850 and Monroe, Michigan, United States in 1879. She died on 11 February 1892, in Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Monroe, Monroe, Michigan, United States.
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- Jane R. Austin, "United States Census, 1880"
- Jane Root Austin, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jane Austin in household of Harvey Austin, "United States Census, 1860"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1821
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
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.
Name Meaning
English: perhaps a nickname for a cheerful person, from an unrecorded Middle English rote (Old English rōt) ‘glad, cheerful’.
English: from Middle English rote, route, rotte ‘rote’ (of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth), perhaps used for a player of the medieval stringed instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. Compare Rutter .
English: perhaps a habitational name from Wroot (Lincolnshire), from Old English wrōt ‘snout, spur of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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