When Caroline Rosalia Thurston was born on 3 January 1844, in Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Thurston, was 38 and her mother, Rosetta Bull, was 34. She married John James Fry on 15 October 1864, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Weber, Utah, United States in 1860 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. In 1880, at the age of 36, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 28 January 1912, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, 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: 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
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (mainly East Anglia):
from the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan, Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn, Thorsten, Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen ).
habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor ) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesCAROLINE ROSALIA THURSTON FRY (1844-1912) A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN BY JEANINE FRY RICKETTS, FEBRUARY 2, 1987 The Deseret Newspaper in Salt Lake City on the 29th of January 191 …
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