When Martha Elizabeth Berry was born on 22 November 1827, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Jesse Woods Berry, was 36 and her mother, Armela Shanks, was 23. She married John Doyle Lee on 29 January 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in New Harmony, Washington, Utah, United States in 1860 and Millard, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 17 June 1885, in Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Kanosh Cemetery, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States.
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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.
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Béara ‘descendant of Béara’, a personal name of unexplained etymology; or, in some cases, perhaps an Anglicized form of Irish and Manx Ó Beargha. Compare Barry 1.
Scottish and northern Irish: variant of Barrie .
English: habitational name from any of several places called in Devon named with Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified manor house, stronghold’, such as Berry Pomeroy and Berrynarbor.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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