Brief Life History of Jesse
When Jesse Turpin was born on 22 June 1816, in Panther Creek, Hamblen, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Turpin Jr., was 42 and his mother, Nancy Ann Tatum, was 31. He married Eliza Ann Boggess on 22 December 1840, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1850 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 22 June 1854, in Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.
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- Jesse Turpin, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jesse Turpin - birth-name: Jessie Turpin
- Jesse Turpin, "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
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
French and English: from the Old French and Middle English personal name Turpin, representing the falling together of the Old Norse name Thórfinnr (composed of the elements Thórr, the name of the god of thunder in Scandinavian mythology + the ethnic name Finnr ‘Finn’; compare Turvin ) and of the Latin name Turpinus (from Latin turpis ‘ugly, base’), one of the self-abasing names adopted as a mark of humility by the early Christians (it was borne by the archbishop of Rheims in the Charlemagne legend), and of the Old French and Middle English form.
History: Alexandre Turpin from France married Marie-Charlotte Beauvais in Montreal, QC, in 1684.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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