Brief Life History of Emily
When Emily Harris was born on 3 April 1849, in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Harris, was 29 and her mother, Ann Stanley, was 30. She married Alfred Greenwood Keetch on 10 November 1866, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She immigrated to Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1866 and lived in Saint Joseph, Mohave, Arizona, United States in 1870 and Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 15 September 1922, in Lindon, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Emily Harris in household of John Harris, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Emily Harris, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Emily Keetch, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, 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 (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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UNKNOWN COMPANIES (1866)
John Harris BIRTH DATE 12 Oct. 1817 DEATH DATE 31 Jan. 1907 GENDER Male AGE 48 Evidence from genealogical and emigration records proves that the Harris family came to Utah in 1866. They imigrated to …
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