Brief Life History of Mary Katherine
When Mary Katherine Feather was born on 7 March 1828, in Greenville, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William Uncle Billy Feather, was 27 and her mother, Catharine Russell, was 24. She lived in Otter Creek Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Custer, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. She died on 4 January 1904, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Ada, Ottawa, Kansas, United States.
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- Mary Hill in household of Joshua Russel, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Feather - Individual or family possessions: birth: 7 March 1828; Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States
- Katherine Feather in entry for William J. Hill, "Washington Deaths and Burials, 1810-1960"
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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.
1836
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Grant, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1848: Grant, Wisconsin, United States
1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English fether, fed(d)er ‘feather’ or perhaps a shortened form of Middle English fetherer, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a trader in feathers and down, a maker of quilts, or possibly a maker of pens. Feathermongers are recorded from the 13th century onward.
English: perhaps also a variant of Father, from Middle English fader, father, feder, fether (Old English fæder) ‘father’, often used to denote someone who exercised protecting care like that of a father.
Native American: translation into English and shortening of a personal name based on a word, such as Chippewa miigwan or Lakota Sioux wiyaka, meaning ‘feather’. The great cultural significance of the eagle feathers to many Native American tribes is reflected in their traditional personal names, many of which were adopted as surnames (translated into English), e.g. Red Feather (see Redfeather ) and White Feather (see Whitefeather ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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