Eliza Jane Fosdick was born on 10 April 1819, in Lima, Livingston, New York, United States as the daughter of Jabez Fosdick and Clarissa Brooks. She married Rufus Beach on 21 January 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 15 August 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
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.
English: habitational name from Fosdyke, Lincolnshire, so called from the genitive case of the Old English byname Fōt, meaning ‘foot’ (or the Old Norse cognate Fótr), + Old English dīc ‘ditch, dike’ (see Ditch ). This surname is now rare in Britain.
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