Brief Life History of Mary Bratton
When Mary Bratton Rich was born on 11 February 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Charles Coulson Rich, was 36 and her mother, Eliza Ann Graves, was 34. She married Joseph William Linford on 6 December 1866, in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Fish Haven, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1900 and St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 April 1931, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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- Mary B Linford, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mrs Mary Rich Linford, "Utah, Brigham City Family History Center, Obituary Collection, 1930-2015"
- Mary B Rich, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1848 · Fire Destroys the Temple
On October 9, 1848, an arsonists fire claimed everything but the outer walls of the Nauvoo Temple since the structure was made out of limestone and wood. It was meant to discourage the Saints that had fled to never come back.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a wealthy man (or perhaps in some cases an ironic nickname for a pauper), from Middle English, Old French riche ‘rich, wealthy’, a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to ancient Germanic rīc ‘power(ful)’.
English: from the Middle English personal name Rich, a pet form of any of the post-Conquest names beginning in Rich-, such as Richer and especially Richard . Compare Rick .
English: either a topographic name from Middle English riche(Old English ric) ‘stream’, signifying one who lived beside a stream, as at Glynde Reach (Sussex), or perhaps a habitational name from the (now lost) village of Riche (Lincolnshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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