Brief Life History of Jessie Lucetta
When Jessie Lucetta Penrose was born on 10 December 1858, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Charles William Penrose, was 26 and her mother, Lucetta Stratford, was 24. She married William Richard Jones on 16 December 1883, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City Ward 6, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 8 June 1944, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Jessie P Jones in household of William R Jones, "United States Census, 1940"
- Utah, Select County Marriages, 1887-1937
- Jessie Penrose Jones, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
Cornish and Welsh: habitational name from any of the places called Penrose or Penrhos: twelve in Cornwall, one in Devon, several in Wales, and one in Herefordshire near the Welsh border. The Cornwall and Devon placenames derive from Middle Cornish pen ros ‘hill's end’ (pen ‘head, top, end; promontory’, ros ‘promontory, hill spur’). The Herefordshire and Wales placenames have the same meaning, derived from the Welsh elements which correspond to Middle Cornish pen + ros.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Jessie Lucetta Penrose
Grandma Penrose crossed the plains at the age of 3 and I used to sit on her bed at Aunt Glady's house and hear her stories. She was beautiful and frail and I loved her. She was my connection to the …
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