When Maribah Ann Bird was born on 13 June 1837, in Southport, Chemung, New York, United States, her father, James Bird, was 30 and her mother, Jane Mott Carpenter, was 26. She married Lyman Lafayette Woods on 13 July 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Bennett Springs, Lincoln, Nevada, United States in 1900. She died on 28 May 1907, in Barclay, Lincoln, Nevada, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Barclay, Lincoln, Nevada, United States.
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After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
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Historical Boundaries 1858: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1861: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1866: Lincoln, Nevada, United States
English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesThe story is told that Lyman L. Woods and Maribah Ann Bird became friends in Nauvoo, while Lyman was under the care of the Rockwood family. One account states that they traveled across the valley in …
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