When Stewart Eccles Sr. was born on 15 January 1852, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Eccles, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Hutchinson, was 31. He married Marintha Elthara Bingham on 14 March 1878, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Skamania, Washington, United States in 1900 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 3 November 1914, in Tottenham, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 62, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Eden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1854: Skagit, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Skagit, Washington, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Eccles in Lancashire, or possibly from any of several other places so named in Kent, Norfolk, Berwickshire, and Dumfriesshire, from British eglēs ‘Romano-British Christian church’ (from Latin ecclesia, Greek ekklēsia ‘gathering, assembly’). Such places would have been the sites of notable pre-Anglo-Saxon churches or Christian places of communal worship.
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Possible Related NamesStewart Eccles, deceased, was a man of many substantial and admirable qualities that endeared him to those with whom he was associated. His sterling worth was widely recognized. He was particularly ac …
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