Brief Life History of Charles Henry
When Charles Henry Bird was born on 2 July 1843, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Charles Bird, was 39 and his mother, Mary Ann Kennedy, was 35. He married Harriet Melissa Ann Clifford on 22 March 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States for about 10 years. He died on 3 December 1907, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States.
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- Chas Bird in household of Chas Bird, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles Henry Bird - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Charles Bird
- Charles Bird, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1845 · Oh My Father
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Charles Henry Bird - Excerpt from "Progressive Men of Idaho"
CHARLES BIRD Excerpt from “Progressive Men of Idaho pages 568 - 569 Brother to the Great Grand Father of Laura Eliza Gardner Mace Coming from ancestry of deep religious faith and marked religious pr …
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