Brief Life History of Eliza Roxie
When Eliza Roxie Metcalf was born on 17 August 1850, in Hull, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Edward Metcalf, was 38 and her mother, Mary Waslin, was 40. She married John Bartholomew on 11 October 1868, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1856. She died on 10 April 1924, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fayette Cemetery, Fayette, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Eliza R Bartholomew in household of Henry L Bartholomew, "United States Census, 1920"
- England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
- Utah, Select Marriages, 1887-1966
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1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1862: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, 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 (Yorkshire): apparently a nickname from Middle English mete ‘meat, food’ + calf ‘calf’, i.e. ‘calf to be fattened up for eating’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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History of Henry Lee Bartholomew
I was born in Fayette, Sanpete County, Utah in the year 1891, Oct 1. My honored and revered parents are John and Eliza Roxie Metcalf Bartholomew. They had previous to my birth ten children, six daught …
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