Brief Life History of Laura Josephine
When Laura Josephine Allen was born on 4 April 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Orvel Morgan Allen, was 40 and her mother, Jane Wilson, was 36. She married Myron Abbott on 25 April 1861, in Browns Fort, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 21 January 1925, in Bunkerville, Clark, Nevada, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bunkerville Cemetery, Bunkerville, Clark, Nevada, United States.
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- Josephine Hall in household of Joshua C Hall, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Laura Josephine Allen - Cemetery record or headstone: birth-name: Josephine
- Laura Josephine Allen & Myron Abbott, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1847
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).
French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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