Brief Life History of Elizabeth Lucretia
When Elizabeth Lucretia Thorn was born on 25 March 1832, in Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States, her father, Asahel Enoch Thorn, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Lester, was 22. She married Calvin Bingham on 18 December 1848, in Pigeon, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1880 and Vernal Utah Temple, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 28 November 1903, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Vernal Memorial Park, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States.
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- Elizabeth Bingham in household of Perry Bingham, "United States Census, 1870"
- Family Data Collection - Births
- Lucretia Thorn, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1833
Established in 1833.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1851 · Brigham City is Settled
In 1851, Brigham City is settled and named after Brigham Young.
Name Meaning
English and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or hedge (Old English, Old Norse thorn, Middle English thorn(e), torn(e)). The name is also found in Sweden.
English: habitational name from a place called with Old English, Old Norse thorn ‘thorn bush’ (see 1 above), for example Thorne in Kent, Somerset, and South Yorkshire.
North German and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, from Middle Low German torn ‘tower’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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