When Eliza Angelia Egbert was born on 9 August 1846, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Joseph Teasdale Egbert, was 28 and her mother, Mary Caroline Allred, was 21. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Davis, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 27 October 1861, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 15, and was buried in Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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The Great Seal of the State of Iowa was created in 1847 and depicts a soldier standing in a wheat field surrounded by symbols including farming, mining, and transportation with the Mississippi River in the background. An eagle overhead bears the state motto.
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Davis, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Davis, Utah, United States
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
North German: from the personal name Egbert, composed of the ancient Germanic elements agi(l) ‘point, edge (of a sword)’ + berht ‘bright, famous’.
English (Devon): from the Middle English personal name Egbert (Old English Ecgbeorht, from ecg ‘sword’ + beorht ‘bright’). The present name in Britain usually appears to be of ancient Germanic origin (see 1 above), cognate with the English one, as the medieval name may not have survived.
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