When Joseph Smith Presley was born in March 1839, in Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, William Hawkins Presley, was 28 and his mother, Eleanor Hepzibah Johnson Presley, was 22. He lived in Page, Iowa, United States in 1850. He died on 16 July 1852, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 13, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Page, Iowa, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
English: variant of Priestley with loss of -t- through assimilation into the preceding -s-.
Americanized form of German Pressler .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesJoseph Smith Presley, born March 1839 in Portage, Ohio; died 16 July, 1852 in Winter Quarters. Remembered at the Pioneer Children’s Memorial, This is the Place Heritage Park; Stone 3 (left side). J …
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