Brief Life History of Minerva
When Minerva Spafford was born in 1835, in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, her father, Horace Spafford, was 38 and her mother, Martha Stiles, was 36. She died on 25 June 1850, in Platte River, Saunders, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 15, and was buried in Platte River, Saunders, Nebraska, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Minerva Spafford, "United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850"
- Minerva Spafford, "Find a Grave Index"
- Minerva Spafford, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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World Events (2)
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire):
habitational name usually from Spalford (Nottinghamshire). The placename may derive from Old English Spaldas, the name of an Anglian tribe who settled chiefly in the fen-lands of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, or from spald ‘ditch, trench’ + ford ‘ford’.
variant of Spofforth, a habitational name from Spofforth (Yorkshire), probably from Old English spot ‘small piece, plot of land’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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