Brief Life History of Margaret Eliza
When Margaret Eliza Felt was born on 6 October 1849, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, her father, Nathaniel Henry Felt, was 33 and her mother, Eliza Ann Preston, was 28. She married Thomas Charles West on 10 November 1874, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880 and Willesden, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1901. She died on 12 January 1927, in Morgan, Morgan, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in North Morgan Cemetery, Morgan, Morgan, Utah, United States.
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- Margret E West in household of Preston D West, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Margaret Eliza Felt West, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Margrett Eliza Felt in entry for Albert William West, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Nancy Smith BIRTH 19 Jul 1864 Farmington, Davis County, Utah, USA DEATH 17 Nov 1865 (aged 1) BURIAL North Morgan Cemetery Morgan, Morgan County, Utah, USA Show Map PLOT UK 240 MEMORIAL ID 62845260
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: metonymic occupational name for someone who made, worked with, sold, or perhaps wore felt, from Middle English felt ‘felt’. Compare Felter .
German: rare variant of Feld ‘field, area of open country’, or an Americanized form of its cognate Velt.
Swedish: rare variant of Feldt , a cognate of 2 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life Stoy of Thomas Charles West and Margaret Eliza Felt
THE LIFE STORY OF THOMAS CHARLES WEST AND MARGARET ELIZA FELT "Come, come ye Saints, no toil nor labor fear; But with joy wend your way. We'll find the place which God for us prepared, Far away …
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