When Ann Rachel Strayer was born on 25 August 1826, in Virginia, United States, her father, John P Strayer, was 28 and her mother, Rachael Stewart, was 29. She married Absolom R Stockwell on 15 October 1846, in Logan, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Pleasant Township, Logan, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. She died on 15 October 1888, in De Graff, Logan, Ohio, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, De Graff, Logan, Ohio, 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.
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
Americanized form of German Ströher: habitational name for someone from any of the places called Ströh in Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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