When Mary Elizabeth Lindsay was born on 29 September 1870, in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Joseph Shanks Lindsay, was 21 and her mother, Emma Bennion, was 18. She married Edwin Turpin Bennion on 12 October 1892, in Logan Utah Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1930. She died on 28 January 1969, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from Lindsey in Lincolnshire, England. This is first found in the form Lindissi, apparently a derivative of the British name of Lincoln . To this was later added the Old English element ēg ‘island’, since the place was virtually cut off by the surrounding fenland. The surname was taken to Scotland at an early date and is the name of an important and powerful Scottish family.
Irish: adopted as an equivalent ofvarious Gaelic names (see Lindsey ).
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Possible Related NamesMary Elizabeth Lindsay as a young girl lived in Taylorsville. Her education outside of Taylorsville was at the University of Utah for one year and the LDS Business College in Salt Lake City for one ye …
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