When Dr. Lewis Cass Garr was born on 16 June 1829, in Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Benjamin Wilhoit Gaar, was 41 and his mother, Nancy Vincent Smith, was 32. He married Lavina Kerlin on 20 November 1851. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Union Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 1 October 1898, in Rutland Township, Montgomery, Kansas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Montgomery, Kansas, 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 1830: Johnson, Indiana, United States
Male Atkins, 10 Jan 1854
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McGarr , from Gaelic Mac an Gheairr.
German: metonymic occupational name for a cartwright, from Middle High German garre, karre ‘cart’.
German: possibly also an altered form of Gorr .
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