Brief Life History of Walter Franklin
When Walter Franklin Mayhew was born on 17 January 1848, in Edinburgh, Blue River Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States, his father, Elijah Mayhew, was 40 and his mother, Lydia Farnsworth, was 39. He married Mary Ellen Crawford on 4 June 1885, in Logan Utah Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. He lived in Nephi Election Precinct, Juab, Utah, United States in 1900 and Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1910. He died on 18 June 1914, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Ephraim Park Cemetery, Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Walter F Farnsworth in household of Lyda Farnsworth, "United States Census, 1860"
- Walter Franklin Mayhew, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Walter Franklin Mayhew, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English (East Anglia): from the French and Middle English personal name Maheu (Old French Mahieu), a common Norman form of Matthew . Its common Middle English pet form was Maw, by syncope of the medial -he-; see under Maw 1. See also May and Mahy .
Americanized form of French Mailloux .
History: Thomas Mayhew (1593–1682) came to Medford, MA, from Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, c. 1632, and subsequently moved to Watertown, MA. In 1642 he established a settlement on Martha's Vineyard, with his son Thomas, who was the first English missionary to the Indians of New England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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