Brief Life History of Rebecca Ann
When Rebecca Ann Brandon was born on 11 April 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, George Washington Brandon, was 34 and her mother, Keziah Fowler, was 28. She married Francis Wilcox on 5 April 1861, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Clearfield, Davis, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 8 January 1940, in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Syracuse Memorial Park, Syracuse, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Rebecca Ann Wilcox in household of Frances Wilcox, "United States Census, 1900"
- Rebecca Braydon, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
- Rebecca A Brandon Wilcox, "BillionGraves Index"
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1845 · Oh My Father
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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 any of various places called Brandon, in Durham, Norfolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and elsewhere. Most are named with Old English brōm ‘broom, gorse’ + dūn ‘hill’. One in Lincolnshire, however, may be named after the Brant River, on which it stands; Ekwall derives the river name from Old English brant ‘steep’, presumably with reference to its steep banks. This surname was known in Ireland early enough to have a Gaelicized form de Breandún.
Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Breandáin ‘son of Breandán’, a rare Kerry surname from the Latinized form of the name of the local saint, Brendan (Brendanus from Bréanainn).
French: from the Old French oblique case of the personal name Brando, of ancient Germanic origin (see Brand 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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