Brief Life History of Seth Millington
When Seth Millington Blair was born on 13 March 1819, in New London, Ralls, Missouri, United States, his father, James Blair, was 30 and his mother, Catherine Christian Jordan, was 17. He married Cornelia Jane Espy on 7 December 1837, in Hales Point, Lauderdale, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. In 1860, at the age of 41, his occupation is listed as editor and lawyer in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died on 17 March 1875, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Seth M Bl*, "United States Census, 1870"
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1820
Historical Boundaries: 1820: Ralls. Missouri, United States
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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1814-1884 E W East Journal "Reminiscences"
This text of Edward Wallace East’s “Reminiscences by E. W. East” was prepared by Danelle Curtis using scans of the original hand written journal. The original journal is now at the BYU-Provo Ha …
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