Brief Life History of Polly Emaline
When Polly Emaline Lamb was born on 11 January 1841, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Erastus Lamb, was 36 and her mother, Abigail Mindwell Jackson, was 32. She married John Riggs Murdock on 27 January 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880 and Haden, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1900. She died on 21 January 1914, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Bolly Hopkins in household of Jas Lamp, "United States Census, 1860"
- Polley Emline Lamb Hopkins, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Polly Emaline Murdock, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1842 · Relief Society Organized
The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized on March 17, 1842. Emma Smith was the first Relief Society president. It was established as a way to help strengthen and serve other women.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Abigail Mindwell Jackson Lamb
Abigail Mindwell Jackson Lamb Abigail Lamb was born in New York in 1807. She married Erastus Lamb about 1829. They made their first home in Huron, Wayne County, New York. It was here a daughter and t …
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