When Jane Maria Lake was born on 18 July 1830, in Ernestown Township, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Lake Jr., was 41 and her mother, Philomela Loomis Smith, was 36. She married Stephen Ordway Sr in 1850, in Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Star Valley, Uinta, Wyoming, United States in 1900 and Fairview, Weston, Wyoming, United States in 1910. In 1880, at the age of 50, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 10 February 1914, in Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, 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.
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English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesRELATED COMPANIES James Lake Company (1850) In the summer of 1850 we went forth again in the time to join a company of saints moving to the Valley. My father [James Lake] was chosen captain of fifty. …
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