Brief Life History of Fannie Emma
When Fannie Emma Barnes was born on 14 July 1848, in New York City, New York County, New York, United States, her father, John Shaw Barnes, was 23 and her mother, Jane Lee, was 19. She married Samuel Oliver on 5 September 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1860 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 15 July 1890, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Fanny E Barnes in household of John S Barnes, "United States Census, 1860"
- Fanny E Barnes Oliver, "BillionGraves Index"
- Fannie Emma Oliver, "Utah, Cemetery Abstracts"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · Land in Groton Given to US Navy for Navy Station
In 1868, the State of Connecticut gave the Navy 112 acres of land along the Thames River. This became the location of the Naval Submarine Base. It was designed to hold 1,400 men and 20 submarines. During WWII it was expanded to 497 acres.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), named with Old English bere-ærn ‘barn, a storehouse for barley and other grain’, or a topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn, granary’.
English: variant of Barne, with excrescent -s, derived from either the Middle English personal name Bern, Barn (based on the Scandinavian personal name Biǫrn or Old English Beorn, both from a word meaning ‘warrior’), or from Middle English barn (Old Norse barn) ‘child’. The latter term is found as a byname for men of the upper classes; it might also have had the meaning ‘young man of a prominent family’, like Middle English child (see Child ).
Irish: in Ireland in many cases this is no doubt the English name, but in others it is possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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