Brief Life History of Lutitia
When Lutitia Shearer was born on 9 February 1822, in Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joel Shearer, was 30 and her mother, Phoebe Blackwell, was 22. She married Joseph Warthen on 14 March 1841, in Atlas, Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Springville, Utah, Utah, United States for about 40 years. She died on 19 September 1903, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Springville City Cemetery, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Letitia Worthen in household of Joseph Worthen, "United States Census, 1850"
- 1845 Illinois LDS Membership Birth of Brigham Heber Worthan son of Joseph Worthan & Lutitia Shearer, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Lutitia Shearer, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: occupational name for a reaper of standing crops, a sheep shearer, or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from Middle English sherer(e) ‘shearer’, an agent derivative of Middle English schere(n) ‘to shear’. Middle English schere denoted shears and scissors of all sizes. Compare Sherman .
Americanized form of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Scherer or Scherrer , cognates of 1 above. Compare Sharrer .
Americanized form of German Scheurer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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