When Clarinda Ann Ricks was born on 10 January 1835, in Olive Township, Madison, Illinois, United States, her father, Joel Ricks Sr, was 30 and her mother, Eleanor Martin, was 27. She married Silas Sanford Smith on 9 July 1851, in Layton, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Davis, Utah, United States in 1850 and Red Creek, Iron, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 18 March 1864, in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Parowan Cemetery, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States.
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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.
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.
"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."
English: variant of Rick , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See also Rickson .
English: topographic name from Middle English rixe, rexe (Old English rixe, a West Saxon metathesized form of Old English risc, rysc ‘rush’) wash. The surname probably originally denoted someone who lived where rushes grew, or it may be a habitational name from a place so named, such as Rix (Devon).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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