When Sarah Jane Spooner was born on 1 October 1839, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, David Nash Spooner, was 36 and her mother, Ann Dayer, was 26. She married Benjamin Franklin Johnson on 5 April 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1854 and lived in Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1841 and Santaquin, Utah, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 November 1911, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
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English: occupational name from an unrecorded Middle English sponer, of uncertain meaning. It appears to be a derivative of Middle English spon ‘chip of wood, shingle, spoon’, and could denote either someone who made or fitted wooden roofing shingles or who made and sold spoons as eating implements, typically of wood or horn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesLETTER TO FRANKLIN AND LELA HAYMORE Tustin, California January 9, 1963 Dear Franklin and Lela: I wrote to Aunt Ester Lewis and asked her to write and tell me what she could remember about …
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