Brief Life History of Edwin Ralph
When Edwin Ralph Wardle was born on 4 August 1848, in Converse, Wyoming, United States, his father, George Wardle, was 28 and his mother, Fanny Rushton, was 26. He married Betsy Orinda Thompson on 23 November 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 11 August 1927, in Duchesne, Duchesne, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Maesar-Fairview Cemetery, Maeser, Uintah, Utah, United States.
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- Ellis Wardel, "United States Census, 1870"
- U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
- Edwin Ralph Wardle, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Wardle in Lancashire and possibly Wardle in Cheshire, both named with Old English weard-hyll ‘watch hill’. Compare Warden 2 and Wardlaw .
habitational name from Weardale (Durham), which takes its name from the river Wear (related to the Indo-European root wis-, weis- ‘liquid, flow’ or wedōr- ‘water’) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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