Brief Life History of Amelia Rhoda
When Amelia Rhoda Balser was born on 17 June 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, John Balser, was 29 and her mother, Emma Sarah Evans, was 28. She married James M Watson on 21 February 1876, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 23 November 1915, in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Amelia Bolser in household of John Bolser, "United States Census, 1870"
- Amelia R Balier Watson, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Amelia Roda, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864
Historical Boundaries 1864: Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1885: Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United States 1893: Bannock, Idaho, United States 1919: Caribou, Idaho, United States
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
German: from a shortened form of the personal name Balthasar (see Baltazar ). Compare Bolser .
Jewish (from Lithuania): habitational name for someone from the Lithuanian town called Bolsie in Polish, Balsiai in Lithuanian + Yiddish gentilic suffix -er.
Americanized form of Jewish Belzer 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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