Hyrum H. Blackwell was born on 7 January 1824, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States as the son of James Blackwell and Mary. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848. He died on 11 January 1864, at the age of 40.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackwell, for example in Cumbria, Derbyshire, County Durham, Warwickshire, Somerset, Devon, Sussex, and Worcestershire, named in Old English frp blæc ‘black, dark’ + wæll(a), well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Alternatively, it may be a topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘dark well or stream’, Middle English blak + wel(le).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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