When Barbara Ann Thorn was born on 20 January 1849, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Asahel Enoch Thorn, was 40 and her mother, Sarah Lester, was 39. She married Dan Wray Walker on 6 June 1868, in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 5 April 1938, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1856: Box Elder, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Box Elder, Utah, United States
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English and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or hedge (Old English, Old Norse thorn, Middle English thorn(e), torn(e)). The name is also found in Sweden.
English: habitational name from a place called with Old English, Old Norse thorn ‘thorn bush’ (see 1 above), for example Thorne in Kent, Somerset, and South Yorkshire.
North German and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, from Middle Low German torn ‘tower’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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