Brief Life History of Gordon Silas
When Gordon Silas Bills was born on 18 March 1854, in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Andrew Bills Sr, was 18 and his mother, Emeline Beckstead, was 16. He married Ellen Gatherhood Holt on 27 September 1875, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 20 March 1932, in Riverton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in South Jordan Cemetery, South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Gordon Silas Bills, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Gordon Silas Bills, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Gordon Silas Bills, "Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900"
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1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): variant of Bill 1 and 2, with, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dutch: from bijl ‘axe’, used to denote someone who made or used axes.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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