Brief Life History of Emma Jane
When Emma Jane Evans was born on 11 February 1835, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edward Evans, was 35 and her mother, Charlotte Featherstone, was 30. She married Nelson Adam Empey 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. She lived in Shrewsbury St Mary, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. She died on 22 October 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Emma Evans in household of Charlotte Evans, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Legacy NFS Source: Emma Jane Evans - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth-name: Emma Empey Evans
- Emma Empey Van Valkenburg, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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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.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
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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