Brief Life History of Emma Dorothy
When Emma Dorothy Bell was born on 18 March 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, John Watson Bell Sr, was 38 and her mother, Ann Fish, was 32. She married Ephraim Horace Roberts on 2 November 1861, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Mona, Juab, Utah, United States for about 9 years. She died on 9 January 1911, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
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- Emma Roberts in household of Horace E Roberts, "United States Census, 1870"
- Emma D. Roberts, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Sarah Bell, "England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950"
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1845 · Oh My Father
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from the Middle English personal name Bell. As a man's name this is from Old French beu, bel ‘handsome’, which was also used as a nickname. As a female name it represents a short form of Isabel .
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from Middle English belle ‘bell’ (Old English belle), in various applications; most probably a metonymic occupational name for a bell ringer or bell maker, or a topographic name for someone living ‘at the bell’ (as attested by 14th-century forms such as John atte Belle). This indicates either residence by an actual bell (e.g. a town's bell in a bell tower, centrally placed to summon meetings, sound the alarm, etc.) or ‘at the sign of the bell’, i.e. a house or inn sign (although surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in Scots and English).
English: from Middle English bel ‘fair, fine, good’ (Old French bel ‘beautiful, fair’). See also Beal 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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