When Benjamin Barr Neff was born on 6 May 1834, in Strasburg, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Neff, was 39 and his mother, Mary Barr, was 32. He married Martha Ann Bitner on 26 February 1858, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 18 February 1883, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.
German and Swiss German: relationship name from Middle High German neve ‘nephew’ (later rather broader in application, like cousin in English), hence probably a distinguishing name for a close relation or familiar of a prominent personage. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Naff .
Dutch: variant of Neve , cognate with 1 above.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Neffe ‘nephew’, cognate with 1 above.
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Possible Related Nameshttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~timbaloo/Uncles/pages/Benjamin.htm Uncle Benjamin (1834-1883) was only 9 when his family joined its fortunes with those of the Mormons, and only 13 when …
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