Brief Life History of Mary Eliza
When Mary Eliza Young was born on 8 June 1847, in Winter Quarters, Washington, Nebraska, United States, her father, Brigham Young, was 46 and her mother, Clarissa Ross, was 32. She married Mark Martin Croxall on 4 June 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 5 September 1871, in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Crovell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary E, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949" for Walter Croxall
- Mary E Young in entry for Willard Young Croxall, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
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 This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Washington, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Washington, Nebraska, United States
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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