Brief Life History of Louisa Chapin
When Louisa Chapin Gordon was born on 28 February 1820, in Williamson, Ontario, New York, United States, her father, Conrad Gordon, was 35 and her mother, Julia Ann Searle, was 26. She married David Lorin Rising on 4 July 1838, in Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 29 April 1849, in Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States.
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- A PARTIAL LIST OF CHURCH MEMBERS LIVING IN NAUVOO Maurine Carr Ward-1842 Nauvoo Census
- Loisa C. Gordon, "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"
- Louisa Chapin Gordon Woolley, "BillionGraves Index"
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
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
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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