Hannah Eliza Woolf

Brief Life History of Hannah Eliza

When Hannah Eliza Woolf was born on 5 November 1838, in Pelham, Westchester, New York, United States, her father, John Anthony Woolf Sr., was 33 and her mother, Sarah Ann Devoe, was 24. She married Homer Brown on 12 October 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States in 1860 and Bennion, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 3 December 1927, in Thomas, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Riverside Thomas Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Homer Brown
1830–1905
Hannah Eliza Woolf
1838–1927
Marriage: 12 October 1856
John Anthony Brown
1857–1857
Orson Brown
1858–1935
Solon Woolf Brown
1860–1913
Oscar Benjamin Brown
1862–1863
Arthur Brown
1864–1933
Zina Brown
1866–1868
James Devoe Brown
1868–1868
Byron Nelson Brown
1869–1929
Minerva Hannah Brown
1871–1871
William Edward Brown
1873–1927
Lydia Eliza Brown
1875–1930
Ethel Belle Brown
1878–1909
Josephine Mumford Brown
1880–1954
Claude LeRoy Brown
1882–1948

Sources (83)

  • Anna C Brown in household of Omer Brown, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Marriage of Willard Duane Cranney and Harriet Woolf in Harriet Ann Wood, "An Index of the Descendants of John Anthony Woolf & Sarah Ann DeVoe"
  • Hannah E.W. Brown, "Idaho, Death Certificates, 1911-1937"

World Events (8)

1839 · Nauvoo is Settled

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.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Wolf or Wolfe .

Americanized form of North German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wulf or Wulff .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Hannah Eliza Woolf

Hannah Eliza (Woolf) Brown was the only grandparent my mother, Helen Josephine (Quist) Milligan, knew. She lived, at the end of her life, in a very small home, with her handicapped son, Claude LeRoy B …

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