When Harriet Elizabeth Thurston was born on 7 January 1829, in Adamsville, Muskingum, Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Thurston, was 23 and her mother, Rosetta Bull, was 19. She married William Washington Potter on 3 July 1851, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860 and Franklin, Delaware, New York, United States in 1865. She died on 4 March 1872, in Morgan, Morgan, Utah, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
Find A Grave website photo indicates establishment of the cemetery in 1848. Located at the NE corner of 4th Avenue and N Street. Salt Lake City Cemetery is in The Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah. Approximately 120,000 persons are buried in the cemetery. Many religious leaders and politicians, particularly many leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) lie in the cemetery. It encompasses over 250 acres and contains 9 1?2 miles of roads. It is the largest city-operated cemetery in the United States. The first burial occurred on September 27, 1847, when George Wallace buried his child, Mary Wallace. The burial was two months after the Mormon pioneers had settled the Salt Lake Valley. In 1849, George Wallace, Daniel Wells, and Joseph Heywood surveyed 20 acres at the same site for the area's burial grounds. In 1851, Salt Lake City was incorporated and the 20 acres officially became the Salt Lake City Cemetery with George Wallace as its first sexton.
English (mainly East Anglia):
from the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan, Thorsten (Old Norse Thórsteinn, Thorsten, Anglicized as Old English Thurstān; see Thorstensen ).
habitational name from Thurston in Suffolk, so called from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Thóri (see Thor ) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesWilliam Washington Potter William Washington Potter was born June 9, 1819 at Ft. Ann, Washington, New York to Thomas Potter and Wealthy Weller. He was the 10th and last child born to this union …
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