When Martha Jane Spafford was born on 24 January 1837, in Upper Canada, British North America, her father, Horace Spafford, was 39 and her mother, Martha Stiles, was 38. 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 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 25 May 1894, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesThe 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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