Brief Life History of Elizabeth Letitia
When Elizabeth Letitia Higginbotham was born on 13 January 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, William Elliott Higginbotham, was 34 and her mother, Louisa Ward, was 37. She married David Harold Peery on 10 April 1865, in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Eastern District, Powhatan, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 13 December 1938, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Elizabeth Letitia Higginbotham Peery, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Family Data Collection - Births
- Utah, Select Marriages, 1887-1966
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1848 · Fire Destroys the Temple
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.
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 (Cheshire): habitational name from Oakenbottom in Bolton le Moors (Lancashire), probably originally called ǣcen-botme ‘oaken valley’. During the Middle Ages this name became successively Eakenbottom and Ickenbottom, with the first element becoming associated with the Lancashire and Cheshire dialect word hicken or higgen ‘mountain ash’ or the personal name Higgin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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