When Eliza Jane West was born on 20 April 1847, in Borrowash, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John West, was 30 and her mother, Rachel Keeling, was 29. She married Samuel Barnes Taylor on 3 June 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1852 and lived in North Point, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 25 January 1935, in Magna, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Magna, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1863: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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.
English and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a habitational name for someone who had migrated from further west.
Americanized form of Finnish Vesterinen: from the personal name Vesteri (a short form of Sylvester ) + the surname suffix -nen.
History: This name was brought to North America independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warre, was captain general of Virginia in 1610–11. The state of DE is named for him. One of the earliest permanent settlers was Francis West (1606–92), who came to Duxbury, MA, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in or before 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesSamuel Barnes Taylor was a pioneer of 1852. He was born at Ashton, Underloyd, Lancashire, England ,16 october 1841, the youngest of a family of 12 children. He crossed the plains three times, once wi …
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