Brief Life History of William
When William Greenwood III was born on 27 July 1852, in Nebraska, United States, his father, William Greenwood Jr, was 33 and his mother, Anne Hartley, was 31. He married Martha Matilda Stewart on 8 February 1877, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Union, Oregon, United States in 1910 and Tremonton, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 27 July 1930, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- William M Greenwood, "United States Census, 1910"
- W M Greenwood, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- William Greenwood, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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World Events (8)
1854
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1873
Historical Boundaries 1873: Sevier, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sevier, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Greenwood Lee in Heptonstall (Yorkshire), from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünholz, an ornamental compound of German grün ‘green’ + Holz ‘wood’, and probably also of the same German surname.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünwald (see Grunwald ), and of French Boisvert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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RUTH GREENWOOD
RUTH GREENWOOD Ruth Greenwood was born August 8, 1865, in Beaver, Utah. She was the eleventh child of William Greenwood Jr. and Ann Hartley. When she was very young, her older brother Barney ret …
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