When Carey Trumbel Pierce was born on 9 November 1825, in Bennington, Wyoming, New York, United States, his father, Isaac Pierce, was 37 and his mother, Thankful Stedman, was 39. He married Marcella J. Marsh on 7 September 1871, in Grundy, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Highland Township, Grundy, Illinois, United States in 1860. He died on 30 June 1896, in Verona, Grundy, Illinois, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Verona, Grundy, Illinois, 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: 1841: Grundy, Illinois, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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