Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Phelps was born on 6 August 1829, in Tazewell, Tazewell, Illinois, United States, her father, Morris Charles Phelps, was 23 and her mother, Laura Clark, was 22. She married Charles Coulson Rich on 6 January 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860 and Planktown, Cass Township, Richland, Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 17 April 1912, in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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- Mary A Rich, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary Rich, "Idaho, Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
- Mary A Phelps in entry for William Lyman Rich, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1965"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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