Brief Life History of Caroline
When Caroline Adams was born on 11 July 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Elias Adams, was 53 and her mother, Malinda Railey, was 29. She married George Platt Stoddard on 6 September 1863, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Gentile Valley, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1900. She died on 24 February 1923, in Grace, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Grace Cemetery, Caribou, Idaho, United States.
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- Caroline Jordan in household of Geo Jordan, "United States Census, 1870"
- Caroline Adams Stoddard, "Find A Grave Index"
- Caroline Adams in entry for Elias Stoddard, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846 · First Nauvoo Temple Dedicated
On May 1-3, 1846, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was fully dedicated. It was the second temple that had been built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first temple with an angel Moroni on top, in the case of this temple it also doubled as a weather vane. Before the saints left Nauvoo they gathered in great numbers to go through.
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, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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