Brief Life History of Harriet Helen
When Harriet Helen Sprague was born on 4 October 1834, in Castile, Castile, Wyoming, New York, United States, her father, Richard Demont Sprague, was 27 and her mother, Louisa Maria Rose, was 20. She married Nelson Herrick on 1 April 1852. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1849 and lived in Weber, Utah, United States in 1850 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1860. She died in 1868, in Idaho, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Idaho, United States.
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- Harriet H Sprague in household of Richard D Sprague, "United States Census, 1850"
- Harriet Helen Sprague birth record in Alvin Henry Sprague family bible.
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1841
Historical Boundaries 1841: Wyoming, New York, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): nickname from Middle English sprag ‘brisk, energetic’, a variant of Sprake with voicing of the -k-, which survives in the 19th-century dialect word spragg ‘lively, ingenious’. It was occasionally used in the 12th century as personal name, recorded as Spreg'c. 1177–86.
History: William Sprague came from England to Salem, MA, in 1628 with his brothers Ralph and Richard. He was one of the founders of Charlestown, MA, and later of Hingham, MA. His descendants include Peleg Sprague, a jurist and MA legislator, who was born in 1793 in Duxbury, MA; William Sprague a textile manufacturer born in 1773 in Cranston, RI; and Yale College educator Homer Baxter Sprague, who was born in 1829 in South Sutton, MA, and whose legacy lives on in Yale's Sprague concert hall.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Nelson Herrick & Harriet Helen Sprague
by Eliza Ann Herrick Nelson Herrick [was] born 6 April, 1829, at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, the son of Lemuel Herrick and Sally (Sarah) Judd. He was the tenth child of a family of eleven, and w …
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