Brief Life History of Sarah Ann
When Sarah Ann Whitney was born on 22 March 1825, in Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, United States, her father, Newel Kimball Whitney, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Smith, was 24. She married Joseph Smith Jr on 27 July 1842, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 4 September 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Kimball-Whitney Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Sarah Kimball in household of William Tucker, "United States Census, 1870"
- A Record of Marriages in the City of Nauvoo, Illinois: Sarah Ann Whitney & Joseph C. Kingsbury
- Sarah Ann Kimball, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949"
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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.
1839 · Nauvoo is Settled
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Whitney in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island, piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’. The name may also derive from Whitney (now Whitney Wood) in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), probably named from Old English hwītan ‘white’ + (ge)hæge ‘enclosure’.
History: John Whitney came from London, England, to Watertown, MA, in 1635, and had numerous prominent descendents.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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