Barbara Ann Thorn

Brief Life History of Barbara Ann

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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Family Time Line

Dan Wray Walker
1843–1922
Barbara Ann Thorn
1849–1938
Marriage: 6 June 1868
Zina Elizabeth Walker
1870–1955
Lydia Ann Walker
1872–1961
Sarah Eleanor Walker
1874–1951
Rebecca Mae Walker
1876–1941
Dan Wray Walker Jr
1878–1942
Maude Walker
1880–1970
Mabel Abagail Walker
1882–1941
Dora Vilate Walker
1884–1901
Effie Walker
1886–1967
Ashael Thorn Walker
1889–1892
Lurene Walker
1891–1952

Sources (87)

  • Barbara A. Walker in household of Dan W. Walker, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  • Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1856

Historical Boundaries: 1856: Box Elder, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Box Elder, Utah, United States

1863

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

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

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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