Brief Life History of Charlotte Merrill
When Charlotte Merrill Squires was born on 19 November 1825, in Newbury Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States, her father, Charles Merrill Squire, was 32 and her mother, Charlotte Smith, was 18. She married Lorenzo Snow on 17 January 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 25 September 1850, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Brigham City Cemetery, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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Sources (9)
- Charlotte Squires Snow, "Find A Grave Index"
- Charlotte Squires in entry for Roxcy Snow Box, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Charlotte Squires, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (8)
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Squire , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Story of Charlotte's Death
What the emigrants could not have known was the magnitude of the sacrifice extracted from the Snow family at the time of the miraculous healing. Elder Snow’s sister, Eliza, writes… On the mountain in …
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