Melissa Jane Bigler

Brief Life History of Melissa Jane

When Melissa Jane Bigler was born on 25 March 1825, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States, her father, Mark Bigler, was 39 and her mother, Susannah Ogden, was 39. She married Alfred Boaz Lambson on 25 March 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1899. She died on 25 October 1898, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alfred Boaz Lambson
1820–1905
Melissa Jane Bigler
1825–1898
Marriage: 25 March 1845
Melissa Jane Lambson
1846–1937
Julina Lambson
1849–1936
Ebner Lambson
1850–1870
Edna Lambson
1851–1926
Ebenezer Lambson
1852–1859
Alfred Boaz Lambson
1855–1945

Sources (124)

  • Melissa Jane Lambson in household of Alfred B Lambson, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Melissa Jane Bigler - birth-name: Malissa Jane Bigler
  • Melissa J Biglow, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

World Events (8)

1827

Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, 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.

1845 · Oh My Father

"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."

Name Meaning

South German: topographic name for someone who lived by a curve in a street or river, or in a nook, from Middle High German biegel ‘nook, corner’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Alfred Boaz Lambson - The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Volume 6, pgs. 145-153

ALFRED BOAZ LAMBSON Alfred Boaz Lambson, son of Boaz and Polly Wallworth Lambson, was a pioneer of 1847, having come to the Salt Lake valley in the fall of that year. He was born in Niagara County, …

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