When Elizabeth Garn was born on 19 April 1851, in Fremont, Sandusky, Ohio, United States, her father, Phillip James GARN Sr., was 31 and her mother, Mary Magdalene Fought, was 30. She married John Ford on 4 January 1868, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Centerville Election Precinct, Davis, Utah, United States in 1900 and Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 20 June 1934, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Centerville City Cemetery, Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (western): from a lost place called Garn in Westbury on Severn (Gloucestershire).
English: perhaps a shortened form of the Old French personal name Geron, the oblique case form of Garo, a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Ger- (see Gerald , Gerard , Garbutt ). A shortened form Gern would have given rise to a variant pronunciation Garn in late Middle English.
English: perhaps a shortened form of Garron .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesWritten by daughter, Mary F. Parrish in 1938. (retyped by Nancy Noyes Farrow in 2014 - My mom, Elizabeth Clark, was the granddaughter of Elizabeth Garn and named after her and lived in the Clark home …
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