When Hannah Evans was born on 18 August 1819, in Llanedy, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, William Evans, was 35 and her mother, Tabitha Reese, was 30. She married Thomas Bowen in 1834, in Llanedy, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1856 and lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 27 June 1887, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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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.
Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
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Possible Related NamesThomas Davis Giles was converted to "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" in 1844 in southern Wales through the efforts of his friend, Elder Abel Evans, a local Welsh missionary and recent …
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