When Elizabeth Coleman Crosby was born on 21 December 1822, in Monroe, Mississippi, United States, her father, John Jeter Crosby, was 47 and her mother, Elizabeth Glenn Coleman, was 37. She married John Brown on 20 May 1844, in Monroe, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 24 February 1906, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + bȳ ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.
Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).
History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesThe Crosby’s, Westward from Mississippi Elizabeth Coleman Crosby, born 12 March 1785, was the daughter of Joseph Coleman, who was a Revolutionary War soldier. She was the wife of John Jeter Crosby a …
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