Brief Life History of Martha Jane
When Martha Jane Spafford was born on 24 January 1834, in Upper Canada, British North America, her father, Horace Spafford, was 36 and her mother, Martha Stiles, was 35. She married Sanford Fuller on 10 March 1853, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 25 May 1894, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Martha Fuller in household of Sanford Fuller, "United States Census, 1870"
- Martha J Fuller, "BillionGraves Index"
- Martha Spafford in entry for Anna Elizabeth Fuller, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire):
habitational name usually from Spalford (Nottinghamshire). The placename may derive from Old English Spaldas, the name of an Anglian tribe who settled chiefly in the fen-lands of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, or from spald ‘ditch, trench’ + ford ‘ford’.
variant of Spofforth, a habitational name from Spofforth (Yorkshire), probably from Old English spot ‘small piece, plot of land’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Martha Jane Spafford: 24 January 1837 – 25 May 1894
The same year Martha was born in Pentunae, Ontario, Canada, missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came knocking at the door of the Spafford home. She was the sixth child of …
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