Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Garn was born on 24 March 1847, in Fremont, Sandusky, Ohio, United States, his father, Phillip James GARN Sr., was 27 and his mother, Mary Magdalene Fought, was 26. He married Elizabeth Hopkins Walker on 13 February 1874, in Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880 and Park City, Summit, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 29 July 1932, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Samuel Garns in household of Mary Garns, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Garn - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Samuel Garn
- Samuel Garn, "Idaho, Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
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1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Cache, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Cache, Utah, United States
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 (western): from a lost place called Garn in Westbury on Severn (Gloucestershire).
English: perhaps a shortened form of the Old French personal name Geron, the oblique case form of Garo, a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Ger- (see Gerald , Gerard , Garbutt ). A shortened form Gern would have given rise to a variant pronunciation Garn in late Middle English.
English: perhaps a shortened form of Garron .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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