When Elizabeth Evans was born on 9 May 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Evan Evans, was 45 and her mother, Elizabeth Cook, was 34. She married Isaac Thomas Ivie on 29 March 1861, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850. She died on 17 June 1898, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
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Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesElizabetn Evens was born 9 May 1844 at Nauvoo Ill. From the papers of C.A.Gamett
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