Brief Life History of Eliza Alice Maria
When Eliza Alice Maria Horton was born on 9 July 1848, in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edmund Horton, was 39 and her mother, Maria Meades, was 34. She married William Henry Stevens Jr. on 1 January 1870, in Wanship, Summit, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Peoa, Summit, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 16 years. She died on 2 July 1926, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Stevens Cemetery, Oakley, Summit, Utah, United States.
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- Elizabeth Henry in household of William T Henry, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- Eliza Hortin Stevens, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Eliza Stevens, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Summit, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Summit, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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