Brief Life History of Frances Maxfield
When Frances Maxfield Galloway was born on 14 June 1828, in Blounts Creek, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States, her father, Noah Galloway, was 27 and her mother, Nancy Jones, was 32. She married William Riley Ross on 12 January 1854, in Beaufort, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Durhams Creek, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and Richland Township, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. She died on 27 April 1890, in Beaufort, Carteret, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Sandy Grove Primitive Baptist Cemetery, Edward, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States.
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- Frances Ross in household of William Ross, "United States Census, 1870"
- Fannie Galloway, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Frances Maxfield Galloway Ross, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from Galloway in southwest Scotland, named as ‘place of the foreign Gaels’, from Gaelic gall ‘foreigner’ + Gaidheal ‘Gael’. From the 8th century or before it was a province of Anglian Northumbria. In the 9th century it was settled by mixed Gaelic-Norse inhabitants from the Hebrides and Isle of Man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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