When Susan Spalding was born on 11 January 1838, in Lake, Indiana, United States, her father, Heman Meyer Spalding, was 28 and her mother, Nancy Esther Parker, was 23. She married Isaac Handley on 11 December 1856, in Lake, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Township of Otto, Kankakee, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Kankakee, Kankakee, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 16 October 1894, in Roselawn, Lincoln Township, Newton, Indiana, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Orchard Grove Cemetery, Lowell, Cedar Creek Township, Lake, Indiana, United States.
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By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
Historical Boundaries 1839: Lake, Indiana, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Lake, Indiana, United States
English and Scottish (Angus): variant of Spaulding .
History: The surname was taken to Scotland in the 13th century by Radulphus de Spalding. His descendants prospered, and the name is still common in Scotland. Early American Spaldings include Thomas Spalding, born in Frederica, GA, in 1774, who introduced sea-island cotton in GA, and the physician Lyman Spalding, born in Cornish, NH, in 1775, who founded US Pharmacopoeia.
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