Maribah Ann Bird

Brief Life History of Maribah Ann

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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Family Time Line

Lyman Lafayette Woods
1833–1918
Maribah Ann Bird
1837–1907
Marriage: 13 July 1856
Lyman Laphel Woods
1857–1861
Carlos Reeves Woods
1859–1865
James Bird Woods
1861–1941
Jasper Thomas Woods
1864–1930
Lamond Cresson Woods
1866–1952
Maribah Minerva Woods
1869–1943
Albert Andrew Woods
1871–1943
Roxa Jane Woods
1874–1965
Charlotte Malinda Woods
1877–1964
Joseph Lafayette Woods
1880–1904

Sources (60)

  • Marybe Bird in household of James Bird, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Maribah Ann Bird - Church record: Family genealogies: birth-name: Sarah Jane Bird
  • MARIBAH ANN BIRD WOODS, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1839 · Nauvoo is Settled

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.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1858

Historical Boundaries 1858: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1861: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1866: Lincoln, Nevada, United States

Name Meaning

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.

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Maribah Ann Bird

The 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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