Nancy Aurilla Herring

Brief Life History of Nancy Aurilla

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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Family Time Line

John Brooks Wasden
1844–1908
Nancy Aurilla Herring
1848–1897
Marriage: 22 May 1864
Alice Arrilla Wasden
1865–1882
John Thomas Wasden
1866–1866
Mary Lucinda Wasden
1867–1949
Alta Arvilla Wasden
1870–1948
Margaret Ellen Wasden
1871–1875
Anna Sophia Wasden
1873–1957
Rosella May Wasden
1875–1876
Willard Washington Wasden
1876–1950
Isaac Ransom Wasden
1878–1949
Frederick Orson Wasden
1880–1881
Nancy Caroline Wasden
1882–1958
Joseph Franklin Wasden
1884–1966
Olive Mabel Wasden
1886–1972

Sources (33)

  • Nancy A Wasden in household of Jno B Wasden, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Nancy A Herring, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Nancy A Herring in entry for Willard W Wasden, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

World Events (8)

1849

Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States

1854

On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

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.

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Motherhood

"[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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