Brief Life History of Phebe Whittemore
When Phebe Whittemore Carter was born on 8 March 1807, in Scarborough, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Ezra Carter Jr, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Fabyan, was 31. She married Wilford Woodruff on 13 April 1837, in Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 10 November 1885, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Phebe Woodruff in household of Wilford Woodruff, "United States Census, 1870"
- Phebe W Carter, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016" Marriage Index - Wilford Woodruff
- Phebe Carter, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a transporter of goods, from Middle English carter(e) ‘carter’ (Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier, Old French charetier, medieval Latin carettarius, carettator). The Old French word coalesced with the earlier Middle English word cart(e) ‘cart’, which is from either Old Norse kartr or Old English cræt, both of which, like the Late Latin word, were probably derived from Celtic. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Irish: shortened form of McCarter .
Americanized form of German Karter ‘carder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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