When Martha Louisa Montgomery was born on 7 April 1807, in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, her father, James Montgomery, was 34 and her mother, Rebecca Clark, was 26. She married David Elder on 7 November 1825, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 20 May 1887, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lehi City Cemetery, Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
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 (of Norman origin): habitational name from Sainte-Foy-de-Montgomery and Saint-Germain-de-Montgomery (Calvados). In Ireland this surname was present in the medieval period, died out, and was then reintroduced from Scotland in the 17th century. It has been Gaelicized in Ireland as Mac Iomaire and in Scotland as Mac Gumaraid.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
MY GREAT GRANDFATHERS LETTER "William Bell was the second son of Robert Bell and Jane Been, his wife, and was born December 25, 1759. He married Sarah McGuire, who was the daughter of John McGuire a …
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