Brief Life History of Phoebe Lodema
When Phoebe Lodema Merrill was born on 5 August 1832, in Elba, Genesee, New York, United States, her father, Samuel Merrill, was 51 and her mother, Phoebe Odell, was 44. She married Clark Stillman on 27 July 1846, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. She lived in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880 and Rexburg, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1900. She died on 18 January 1909, in Parker, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Rexburg Cemetery, Madison, Idaho, United States.
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- Phoebe L Jackman, "United States Census, 1860"
- Lodema Merrill, "Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004"
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about William Adamson Thompson
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World Events (8)
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1836
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin - Sept 3, 1836 Treaty Treaty of the Cedars was concluded on the Fox River on September 3, 1836. The Menominee Nation ceded nearly 4 million acres of land for the following items every year for twenty years: $3,000 worth of food provisions, 2,000 lbs. of tobacco, 30 barrels of salt, agricultural supplies, and $500 per year. (Wisconsin Historical Society)
1854 · The Creation of the Republican Party
A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim that the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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SAMUEL MERRILL
Samuel was born on September 25, 1780 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut to Jared and Abigail (Phelps) Merrill. He lived in Albany, New York when he was a little boy. On September 10, 1802 when he was …
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