When Emily Elizabeth Moorman was born on 9 January 1816, in Dover MM, Clinton, Ohio, United States, her father, James Moorman, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Johnson, was 20. She married Dr James Alfred DeGroot on 16 July 1837, in Jamestown, Greene, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Jasper Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died on 9 April 1861, in Jefferson Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Milledgeville-Plymouth Cemetery, Milledgeville, Jasper Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States.
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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.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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 (Isle of Wight and Gloucestershire): topographic or occupational name from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ + man ‘man’, either in the sense ‘person who lives on a moor’ or ‘official who is responsible for an area of moor or the grazing on it’.
Dutch: variant of Moerman .
Americanized form of North German Moormann: variant of Mohrmann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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