Brief Life History of Frances Amanda
When Frances Amanda Croft was born on 23 August 1847, in Spring, Harris, Texas, United States, her father, Jacob Croft, was 39 and her mother, Amanda Miller, was 22. She married John Earl Felshaw on 28 September 1864, in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 21 July 1914, in Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Pima Cemetery, Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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- Frances Felshaw in household of John Felshaw, "United States Census, 1910"
- Frances Croft Felshaw, "BillionGraves Index"
- Francis Crofft in entry for Mrs. M. A. Hayes, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"
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Children (10)
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World Events (8)
1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Millard, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Millard, Utah, United States
1863
Arizona Territory
1865 · Juneteenth (Slaves Were Freed)
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places, for example in Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Herefordshire, and North Yorkshire, all named with Old English croft ‘small arable enclosure (normally adjoining a house)’, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a croft, from Middle English croft.
English: possibly in some cases a variant of Craft 2.
Americanized form of German, Danish, Swedish, or Jewish Kraft . Compare Kroft and Craft .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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