When Zelpha Jackson was born on 27 July 1807, in Williamson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Zachariah Jackson, was 30 and her mother, Malinda Slocum, was 27. She married John Martin Turner on 19 January 1830, in Boone, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Wilson Township, Audrain, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died on 26 July 1877, in Audrain, Missouri, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Mexico, Audrain, Missouri, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).
African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.
History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.
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