Brief Life History of Drusilla
When Drusilla Higgins was born on 18 December 1833, in Florence Township, Erie, Ohio, United States, her father, Nelson Higgins, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Blackman, was 27. She married Warren Stone Snow on 16 May 1855, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 10 February 1892, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Drusilla Snow, "United States Census, 1860"
- Sarah Blackman Higgins, "Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments - Pioneer Overland Travels" (1847)
- Drusilla Higgins, "BillionGraves Index"
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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.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, Utah Territory, United States 1851: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking, sea-rover’ (from Old Norse víkingr). Compare McGuigan .
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Higgin, itself either a Lancashire variant of Huggin (from a pet form of Hugh ), or a variant of Hickin (from a pet form of Richard ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See Hick and compare Higson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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