When Emma Frances Phillips was born on 10 February 1862, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, William George Phillips, was 21 and her mother, Maria Ann Tuckfield, was 18. She married Orson Douglas Romney on 4 September 1884, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in North America in 1925 and World in 1940. She died on 13 June 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
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