When Persis Atherton was born on 27 March 1820, in Dalton, Coos, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Samuel Atherton, was 37 and her mother, Mary "Molly" Brown, was 35. She married Aaron Freeman Farr on 16 January 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 31 December 1906, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
English: habitational name from a place near Manchester named Atherton, from the Old English personal name Æthelhere + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.
English: habitational name from Hatherton, Staffordshire, from Old English haguthorn + dūn ‘the hill where hawthorn grows’.
English (East Anglia): topographic name from Middle English at ther doune ‘(dweller) on the hill’ (Old English æt thǣre dūne). Through confusion of -don and -ton, Attherdoune was altered to Atherton, Adderton, and Atterton.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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