Brief Life History of Emma Geneva
When Emma Geneva Bentley was born on 11 May 1847, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Richard Bentley, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Price, was 25. She married Edwin Dilworth Woolley Jr. on 9 March 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and St. George, Washington, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 13 May 1922, in Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Kanab City Cemetery, Kanab, Kane, Utah, United States.
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- Emma Wooley in household of Edwin D Wooley, "United States Census, 1870"
- Emma Geneva Bentley Woolley, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Emma G B Woolley in entry for Emma Lavinia Woolley, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1861
Historical Boundaries: 1861: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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EMMA GENEVA BENTLEY WOOLLEY
EMMA GENEVA BENTLEY WOOLLEY (complied by her youngest daughter, Grace W. Bowman) March 1929 Richard and Elizabeth Price Bentley came from well-to-do English land owners. They were born and raised i …
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