When Nancy Aurilla Herring was born on 4 March 1848, in Winter Quarters, Washington, Nebraska, United States, her father, Isaac Herring, was 37 and her mother, Harriet Lucinda Adams, was 31. She married John Brooks Wasden on 22 May 1864, in Cove, Sevier, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 March 1897, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Gunnison Cemetery, Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (London), Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, or perhaps for someone who habitually ate herring, from Middle English hering (Old English hǣring, hēring), Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.
German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hering .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names"[James Brooks Wasden KW89-Y6D] gave this tribute to his mother: 'While [Ane Sophia Olsen KWJQ-RKC] gave me life and sacrificed her own in doing so, [Nancy Arilla Herring KWNN-8T4] took me and raised …
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