When Elias Hicks Blackburn was born on 17 September 1827, in Bedford, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Thomas Blackburn, was 55 and his mother, Elizabeth Bowen, was 46. He married Sarah Jane Goff on 3 March 1847, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Piute, Utah, United States in 1880 and Election Precinct 4 Bicknell, Wayne, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 6 April 1908, in Loa, Wayne, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Loa Cemetery, Loa, Wayne, Utah, United States.
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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.
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackburn, but especially the one in Lancashire, so named with Old English blæc ‘dark’ + burna ‘stream’. This surname is found mainly in northern England.
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