When Abigail Evans was born on 27 January 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, David Evans, was 41 and her mother, Barbara Ann Ewell, was 24. She married Ole Ellingson on 1 November 1861, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 13 September 1932, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States.
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On October 9, 1848, an arsonists fire claimed everything but the outer walls of the Nauvoo Temple since the structure was made out of limestone and wood. It was meant to discourage the Saints that had fled to never come back.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAbigail Evans Ellingson was the third child in a family of fifteen. The parents were David and Barbara Ann Ewell Evans. She crossed the plains with her family arriving in Salt Lake Valley September …
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