When Asa Converse was born on 9 January 1814, in Bridport, Addison, Vermont, United States, his father, Lyman Squire Converse, was 31 and his mother, Anna Rand, was 29. He married Thankful McCloud on 5 November 1835. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Plain City, Madison, Ohio, United States in 1880. He died on 30 April 1898, in Marysville, Union, Ohio, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Forest Grove Cemetery, Plain City, Madison, Ohio, United States.
English: nickname from Old French convers literally ‘converted’, used to denote someone converted from secular to religious life in adult age, or, earlier, a lay member of a convent. The Cistercian and Augustinian conversi were men living according to a rule less strict than that of the monks or canons, engaged chiefly in manual work, with their own living quarters and their own part of the church. They were numerous among the Cistercians in the 12th and 13th centuries, often outnumbering the monks and were, by rule, illiterate. These lay brothers were employed on the monastic manors and granges, where they were liable to fall into the sin of owning private property. They acquired a reputation for violence and misbehaviour (at Neath, in 1269, they locked the abbot in his bedroom and stole his horses) and they were gradually replaced by more manageable paid servants.
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