When Amanda Polly Savage was born on 23 August 1836, in York, Home, Upper Canada, British North America, her father, David Leonard Savage, was 26 and her mother, Theodosia Finch, was 21. She married Phineas Wolcott Cook on 18 December 1853, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Goshen, Juab, Utah, United States in 1860 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 15 July 1915, in Garden City, Rich, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Garden City, Rich, Utah, United States.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Juab, Utah Territory, United States 1862: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
English: of Norman origin, a nickname for a wild or uncouth person, from Middle English and Old French salvage, sauvage ‘wild, untamed’ (from Late Latin salvaticus, literally ‘man of the woods’, a derivative of Latin silva ‘wood’ influenced by Latin salvus ‘whole’, i.e. natural). Compare French Sauvage .
Irish (Down): generally of English origin (it was taken to County Down in the 12th century), this name has also sometimes been adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Sabháin, the name of a small south Munster sept, which was earlier Anglicized as O'Savin (see Savin ).
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Savich and of Serbian Savić (see Savic ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names[This was written by Mary Rozelia Cook McCann, the daughter of Amanda Polly Savage Cook. It was transcribed by Mary's daughter, Stella McCann Spencer Stock, for Stella's granddaughter, Mary Florence …
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