Brief Life History of Rhoda Elizabeth
When Rhoda Elizabeth Lay was born on 27 September 1842, in Aberdeen, Monroe, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Harvey Lay, was 25 and her mother, Sytha Solena Crosby, was 24. She married Francis Marion Hamblin on 21 October 1861, in Santa Clara, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Paria, Kane, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Kane, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 September 1934, in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States.
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- Elizth Lay in household of Wm H Lay, "United States Census, 1860"
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Rhonda Elizabeth Jay Hamblin, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1965"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Lee .
Scottish: shortened form of McClay .
German: habitational name from any of the places so named, in the Rhineland near Koblenz and in Bavaria, from lay(h), a word meaning ‘stone, rock, slate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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FRANCIS MARION HAMBLIN Sr. 1837-1881
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