Brief Life History of James Monroe
James Monroe Sessions was born on 15 January 1847, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. He married Alice Fidelia Palmer on 14 January 1875, in Eden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Presto, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1910. In 1920, at the age of 72, his occupation is listed as laborer - farm in Goshen, Bingham, Idaho, United States. He died on 11 September 1931, in Goshen, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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- James M. Sessions, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- 1847 - Legacy NFS Source: James Monroe Sessions - Government record: Census record: birth: 15 January 1847; Florence, Douglas, Nebraska, United States
- 1931 - James Monroe Sessions, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
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 (Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire): of Norman origin, a habitational name from Soissons (Aisne, northern France), named for the Gaulish tribe who once inhabited the area, and whose name is recorded in Latin documents in the form Suessiones, of uncertain derivation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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James Monroe Sessions (15 January 1847 – 11 September 1931)
Stepson of David Sessions. Married Alice Fidelia Palmer, 14 Jan 1875, Eden, Weber, Utah. Children - Jesse Rulon Sessions, Thomas Orlin Sessions, David Junius Sessions, Lafayette Wixom Sessions, Fran …
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