Eli Harvey Peirce

Brief Life History of Eli Harvey

When Eli Harvey Peirce was born on 29 July 1827, in Uwchlan Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Robert Peirce, was 30 and his mother, Hannah Harvey, was 25. He married Susannah Neff on 21 November 1850, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 12 August 1858, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Brigham City Cemetery, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Eli Harvey Peirce
1827–1858
Susannah Neff
1831–1910
Marriage: 21 November 1850
Eli Harvey Peirce Jr
1851–1915
Mary Peirce
1853–1917
Leonidas Thomas Peirce
1855–1933
Susannah Octavia Peirce
1857–1929

Sources (65)

  • Eli Harvey Pierce, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Elisha Mallory Peirce, "United States, Western States Marriage Index"
  • Harvey Eli Pierce, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949"

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.

1832 · Black Hawk War

"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Pierce .

History: The name Peirce first appears in colonial American records in 1623with William Peirce, an English shipmaster who compiled the firstalmanac in English America.

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

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History of Edith Evaline Peirce Fisher

This history was taken from the writings of Edith E. Peirce Fisher and also her daughter Helen Jane Fisher Russell. Also the Church Historians Office in Salt Lake City, where Edith Russell Woods and …

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