Susan Maria Miles

Brief Life History of Susan Maria

When Susan Maria Miles was born on 28 October 1851, in Vandalia, Fayette, Illinois, United States, her father, Sampson S Miles, was 37 and her mother, Catherine Lucretia Hickerson, was 34. She married Thomas Woolsey on 29 July 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860 and Black Rock, Millard, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 4 October 1916, in Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Kanosh Cemetery, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Noah Sumners Buckley Avery
1838–1912
Susan Maria Miles
1851–1916
Marriage: 12 September 1875
Catherine Miranda Woolsey
1867–1906
Noah Oliver Avery
1876–1885
Eli Avery
1878–1878
Aaron Asa Avery
1879–1884
Emma Henrietta Avery
1881–1951
John Andy Avery
1884–1937
Alta Mariah Avery
1885–1885
Ralph Samson Avery
1886–1963
Willard Henry Avery
1888–1888
Jesse James Avery
1890–1940
Elsie Delora Avery
1893–1954
Ottawa Avery
1895–1895
Floyd Fay Avery
1897–1951

Sources (31)

  • Susan M. Avery, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Susan Maria Miles - birth: 28 October 1851; Vandalia, Fayette, Illinois, United States
  • Susan M Miles, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

World Events (8)

1854

Historical Boundaries: 1854: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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 (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .

English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).

Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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History of Susan Maria, Miles, my Grandmother

by Barry H. Avery I would like to make you acquainted with my Grandmother, Susan Maria Miles. Susan was born 14 October 1851 in Fayette County, Illinois . She was the youngest of nine children born t …

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