When Jane McCullough was born on 4 March 1819, in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, her father, Joseph McCullough, was 30 and her mother, Matilda Hutchinson, was 22. She married George Foster on 24 June 1835, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 10 July 1852, in Plum Creek Township, Frontier, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Plum Creek Township, Frontier, Nebraska, United States.
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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.
The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then "The West". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors.
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.
Irish (especially Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cú Uladh, a patronymic from the personal name Cú Uladh ‘hound of Ulster’. Compare McNally , which is from Mac Con Uladh, genitive form of the same name, and McColl , with which the name seems to have sometimes been confused. The name McCullough has sometimes been associated with Gaelic cullach ‘wild boar’, and some families in County Sligo translated it into English as Boar. However, Mac Cú Uladh is the more likely explanation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesI immigrated to America in 1832. I was married to Jane McCullough in 1835, in Cincinnati. She was a daughter of Joseph McCullough and Mattie Hutchison. We had eight children namely, Sarah Jane, Mar …
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