Brief Life History of Jemima Pettit
When Jemima Pettit Westlake was born on 6 September 1803, in Sandy Lake, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Burrough Westlake, was 54 and her mother, Jemima Pettit, was 39. She married Charles Bailey in 1828, in Bridgewater, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 13 June 1891, in Goshen, Juab, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Original Goshen Pioneer Cemetery, Goshen, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Jemima Pea in household of John Pea, "United States Census, 1860"
- Jemima Westlake Bailey, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jamima Thestlake in entry for Charles Westlake Bailey, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"
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1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
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 (southwestern): habitational name from Westlake in Ermington (Devon), or a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a stream (Middle English west ‘west’ + Middle English lak(e), from Old English lacu ‘stream, watercourse’). See Lake .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Jemima Westlake (Bailey)
Daughter of John Burroughs Westlake and Jemima Pettit. Jemima Westlake married Charles Bailey about 1828 at Bridgewater, Beaver, Pennsylvania, where they settled and had three daughters. About 1835- …
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