Brief Life History of Amanda
When Amanda Starr was born on 30 September 1821, in Florence Township, Huron, Ohio, United States, her father, Jared Starr, was 30 and her mother, Eunice Burdick, was 28. She married David Avery Curtis on 20 October 1841, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States in 1841 and Springville, Utah, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 24 August 1853, in Aurora, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- 1850 US Census for Amanda Starr Curtis in household of Daniel Curtis
- 1821 LDS Membership Birth of Amanda Ann Starr
- Amanda Starr, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1825
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Pike, Illinois, United States 1825: Adams, 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
English: from Middle English sterre ‘star’ (Old English steorra), used, like the Old Norse Stjarna, as a nickname, but also occasionally as a personal name. The word was also used in a transferred sense of a patch of white hair on the forehead of a horse, and so perhaps the nickname denoted someone with a streak of white hair. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
English: in addition, the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational, referring to a house or inn distinguished by the sign of a star (see 2 above). Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Star 1 and 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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