Brief Life History of Laura Marinthia
When Laura Marinthia Garmon was born on 27 November 1825, in Leicester, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, her father, Isaac Garman, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Wolf, was 38. She married Joshua Russell Jones on 8 April 1840, in Stokes, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Sulphur Springs, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Lower Hominy Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States in 1880. She died on 20 November 1903, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Candler, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States.
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- Laura M Jones in household of Jos R Jones, "United States Census, 1850"
- Laura M. Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
- Laura Garman in entry for Talitha A. Wilson, "North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930"
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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
Irish: from Mac Gormáin, Ó Gormáin, see Gorman . This surname is now rare in Britain and Ireland. Compare Garman 1.
Altered form of Garman 2-5, a surname of English or German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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