When Elizabeth Ann Anderton was born on 12 January 1862, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, William Anderton, was 19 and her mother, Martha Holden, was 21. She married Hyrum Wells in 1882, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 10, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930. She died on 11 October 1935, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1863: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1865: Sevier, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sevier, Utah, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English: habitational name from any of the three places so named, in Cheshire, Lancashire, and Devon. Those in Cheshire and Lancashire are named with the personal name Ēanrēd (Old English) or Eindrithi (Old Norse) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’. The Devon placename, recorded as Underdon in 1270, means ‘below the down’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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