Brief Life History of Priscilla Rebecca
When Priscilla Rebecca Turley was born on 1 June 1829, in York, Home District, Upper Canada, British North America, her father, Theodore Turley, was 28 and her mother, Frances Kimberley, was 28. She married Amasa Mason Lyman on 16 January 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1850 and Bonsall, San Diego, California, United States in 1900. She died on 20 September 1904, in Redlands, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 75.
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- Priscilla Lyman, "United States Census, 1900"
- Priscilla T Lyman, "BillionGraves Index"
- Pricilla Turley in entry for Ira D. Lyman, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1839 · Nauvoo is Settled
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
1850 · Tornado Finishes off the Temple
On May 27, 1850, a tornado came through Nauvoo and took the remaining outer walls of the temple. It was the most frightful thing the city had witnessed. Not just a tornado but also lightening, thunder, wind, hail and rain assailed the spot. Over time what was not destroyed by the storm crumbled until only a small amount was left.
Name Meaning
Irish (Down): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Toirdealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach, a personal name based on an Irish form of the Old Norse name Thórr ‘Thunder’ + the Gaelic word dealbhach ‘like, in the shape of’. Compare McCurley , from the lenited form of the same name.
Altered form of German Thurley, from a personal name formed with Old High German tiuri ‘dear, valuable’ + līh (?), related to Gothic leiks ‘body, shape’.
English (Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire): variant of Thurlow or Trillo .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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