Brief Life History of Nelson Adam
When Nelson Adam Empey was born on 7 May 1834, in Osnabruck Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Adam Empey, was 25 and his mother, Mary Ann Morgan, was 26. He married Emma Jane Evans on 22 April 1856, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 4 September 1904, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Nelson Empey, "United States Census, 1880"
- Nelson A Empey, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Nelson A Empey, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949"
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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.
1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (London): variant of Impey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Nelson Adam Empey
Nelson Adam Empey was born in Canada on May 7, 1837. He was a son of William Adam and Mary Ann Morgan Empey. He came to Utah with his father and would have been in the original band of pioneers, but …
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