When Hannah Cemantha Wells was born on 7 October 1831, in Washington Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jonathan Sawyer Wells, was 26 and her mother, Margaret Gardner, was 20. She married John Memorial McCrary Sr on 30 August 1849, in Bentonsport, Van Buren, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1880 and Cherry Creek, Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1900. She died on 12 October 1905, in Woodruff, Oneida, Idaho, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Portage, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
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.
In 1851, Brigham City is settled and named after Brigham Young.
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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