Brief Life History of Margaret Minerva
When Margaret Minerva Kerr Andrews was born on 21 October 1816, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Andrews, was 28 and her mother, Abigail Kerr, was 36. She married David Pinkney Rainey in 1839, in Hillsborough, Orange, North Carolina, United States. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. She died on 21 February 1857, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 40.
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- 1850 United States Federal Census
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Minerva Andrews - Church record: birth-name: Margaret Minerva Andrews
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Minerva Andrews - Individual or family possessions: death: 21 February 1857; Provo, Utah, Utah, United States
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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
English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland, Middle English kerr ‘brushwood, wet ground’ (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed, left-handed’.
Irish: variant of Carr .
Americanized form of German Kehr or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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David William Rainey
History of David William Rainey By his daughter Julia from his marriage to Janet Hanson Julia Teola Rainey Brown- written in 1979 David William Rainey was born January 6, 1858 at Provo, …
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