Eliza Brewerton

Brief Life History of Eliza

When Eliza Brewerton was born on 16 September 1851, in Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas William Brewerton, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Ann Crooks, was 22. She married James Wake on 25 December 1873. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1880 and Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1900. She died on 4 December 1919, in Almo, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Sunny Cedar Rest Cemetery, Almo, Cassia, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Wake
1850–1911
Eliza Brewerton
1851–1919
Marriage: 25 December 1873
Charles Francis Wake
1875–1944
Sarah Syvella Wake
1876–1964
Sylvia Jane Wake
1878–1923
Eliza Victoria Wake
1880–1932
Mary Ellen Wake
1881–1959
Fannie Elizabeth Wake
1882–1882
Emma Wake
1884–1884
Walter James Wake
1886–1886
William Thompson Wake
1888–1888
Melvin Robert Wake
1890–1890
Joel Henry Wake
1893–1973

Sources (22)

  • Eliza Brewington in household of Thos W Brewington, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Eliza Waki, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
  • Eliza Brewerton in entry for Sylvia Jane Wake Wickel, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"

World Events (8)

1856

Historical Boundaries: 1856: Box Elder, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Box Elder, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

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.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Brereton , the result of confusion by folk etymology with the occupational name Brewer .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Eliza Brewerton

Eliza Brewerton was born in 1851 near Nottingham in England. She met James Wake in Willard, Box Elder County, Deseret, and married him, and they moved to Almo, Idaho. She served as the first Relief …

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