Brief Life History of Charles Augustus
When Charles Augustus Weston was born on 11 November 1825, in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Abijah Weston, was 29 and his mother, Sally Goodwin, was 22. He married Lydia Jane Brown on 16 January 1848, in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Wakefield, Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1850 and Massachuset, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 11 January 1899, in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Charles A Weston, "United States Census, 1870"
- Charle Augustus Weston - Birth Record
- Chas. A. Weston, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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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.
1830 · The Oregon Trail
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called Weston, from Old English west ‘west’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
topographic name from Middle English atte west tun(e) ‘at the west farmstead, settlement’ (Old English west + tūn), or from Middle English (bi) weste(n)tune (Old English be westan tūne or be west in tūne), denoting someone who lived either to the west of a settlement or in the western part of a settlement. The latter was a common surname in Sussex.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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