When Mary Sophronia Reed was born on 6 August 1828, in Fairview, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, her father, Eldad Reed III, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Gallimore, was 24. She married Joseph Riley Trantham about 1845, in Fairview, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Buena Vista Township, Jasper, Iowa, United States in 1860. She died in 1866, in Pollock, Sullivan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 38.
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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.
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.
Historical Boundaries 1843: Highland County create from Non-County Area 23 1845: Highland County renamed Sullivan County
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
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