Brief Life History of Adaline
When Adaline Harper was born on 8 January 1818, in Harpersfield, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, her father, John Alexander Harper, was 43 and her mother, Loraine Miner, was 30. She married Cyrus Tucker Thompson on 21 September 1835, in Perry, Lake, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 19 July 1857, in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Bristol, Washington Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States.
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- Adaline Thompson, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Adaline Harper Vesey, "Find A Grave Index"
- Adaline Hooper in entry for William C Thompson and Unknown, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1824
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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.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire), Scottish, Irish (Antrim and Down), and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp, from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper, herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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