Brief Life History of William Vest
When William Vest Race was born on 16 October 1848, in Norton, Durham, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Brigham Race SR., was 33 and his mother, Isabella Vest, was 26. He married Nancy Ellen Lettie Thayer in 1879, in Goshen, Juab, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Tooele, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 4 February 1903, in Goshen, Juab, Utah, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Original Goshen Pioneer Cemetery, Goshen, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- William Race in household of Joseph Race, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- William Vest Race, "England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- William Vest Race in the Family Data Collection - Marriages
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1852: Tooele, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Tooele, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Race, Rasse (ancient Germanic Radizo, Razo, Rasso), a pet form of ancient Germanic names beginning with the element rad ‘counsel’.
English: nickname from Old French ras ‘clean shaven’.
Americanized form of German Räss (see Rase 2) and perhaps also of Rase 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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VEST, Ship "Juventa" brings the Vest family to America
The Juventa was of U.S. registry. It had the capacity to carry a load of 1,187 tons. Its rigging type classified it as a ship. It was built at Thomaston, Maine. The ship was owned by the Eastern Star …
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