Barnabas Lake

Brief Life History of Barnabas

When Barnabas Lake was born on 2 June 1827, in Ernestown Township, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Madison Lake Jr., was 38 and his mother, Philomela Smith, was 33. He married Fanny Electa Snyder on 31 March 1850, in Atchison, Missouri, United States. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Franklin, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1852. He died on 18 June 1893, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Fairview, Franklin, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Barnabas Lake
1827–1893
Lucy Jane Herrick
1827–1907
Marriage: 13 July 1851
Electa Diana Lake
1852–1922
Mary Serepta Lake
1854–1919
Julia Ann Lake
1857–1936
Lucy Jane Lake
1859–1942
Sarah Lucinda Lake
1861–1940
Lyman James Lake
1863–1937
Philomela Lake
1865–1884
Lawrence Barnabas Lake
1867–1954

Sources (59)

  • Ramabra Lake, "United States Census, 1870"
  • George Lake in Birth's of Family of Philomila Smith - Appendix Brigham City Arizona Terr - Vol III George Lake Missionary Journal
  • US military pension file

World Events (8)

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.

1839 · Nauvoo is Settled

After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.

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

English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.

English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).

North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).

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

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Story Highlight

Nelson, Lydia Ann Lake, [Autobiography], in Roberta Flake Clayton, comp., Pioneer Women of Arizona, 432.

RELATED COMPANIES James Lake Company (1850) In the summer of 1850 we went forth again in the time to join a company of saints moving to the Valley. My father [James Lake] was chosen captain of fifty. …

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