Brief Life History of Vera Louie
When Vera Louie Marsden was born on 23 December 1893, in Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Amos Hyrum Marsden, was 26 and her mother, Clara May Elsmore, was 19. She married Joseph Elmer Williams on 30 September 1915, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Moreland, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1935 and Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1950. She died on 25 September 1990, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- Vera L Marsden in household of Amos H Marsden, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Vera L. Marsden, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Vera L. Williams, "BillionGraves Index"
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1894
Historical Boundaries 1894: Bingham, Idaho, United States
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire and Yorkshire, so named from Old English mercels ‘boundary’ (see Mark 2) + denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1), i.e. a valley forming a natural boundary.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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