Brief Life History of Joseph Brigham
When Joseph Brigham Blackhurst was born on 26 November 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, William Blackhurst, was 38 and his mother, Margaret Stephenson, was 41. He died in 1847, in Mormon, Stockton, San Joaquin, California, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Mormon, Stockton, San Joaquin, California, United States.
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- Joseph Brigham Blackhurst, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846 · First Nauvoo Temple Dedicated
On May 1-3, 1846, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was fully dedicated. It was the second temple that had been built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first temple with an angel Moroni on top, in the case of this temple it also doubled as a weather vane. Before the saints left Nauvoo they gathered in great numbers to go through.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various minor places called Blackhurst (in Cheshire, Shropshire, Kent) or Blackhurst Farm (Cheshire), derived from Old English blæc ‘black, dark’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’. Alternatively, it may be a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) black wooded hill’, with the same etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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