Brief Life History of Richard Demont
When Richard Demont Sprague was born on 2 March 1807, in Junius, Seneca, New York, United States, his father, Isaac Chamberlain Sprague, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Sasson, was 20. He married Louisa Maria Rose on 20 September 1832, in Castile, Castile, Wyoming, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1849 and lived in Weber, Utah, United States in 1850. He registered for military service in 1853. In 1880, at the age of 73, his occupation is listed as brick stone mason in Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States. He died on 3 December 1886, in Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Huntsville Cemetery, Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Richard D Sprague, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Richard Demont Sprague - birth-name: Richard Demont SPRAGUE
- U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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 (Devon): nickname from Middle English sprag ‘brisk, energetic’, a variant of Sprake with voicing of the -k-, which survives in the 19th-century dialect word spragg ‘lively, ingenious’. It was occasionally used in the 12th century as personal name, recorded as Spreg'c. 1177–86.
History: William Sprague came from England to Salem, MA, in 1628 with his brothers Ralph and Richard. He was one of the founders of Charlestown, MA, and later of Hingham, MA. His descendants include Peleg Sprague, a jurist and MA legislator, who was born in 1793 in Duxbury, MA; William Sprague a textile manufacturer born in 1773 in Cranston, RI; and Yale College educator Homer Baxter Sprague, who was born in 1829 in South Sutton, MA, and whose legacy lives on in Yale's Sprague concert hall.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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