Brief Life History of Eliza Roxey
When Eliza Roxey Snow was born on 21 January 1804, in Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Oliver Snow III, was 28 and her mother, Rosetta Leonora Pettibone, was 25. She married Joseph Smith Jr on 29 June 1842, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 5 December 1887, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mormon Pioneer Memorial, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Eliza Snow, "United States Census, 1850"
- Roxey Eliza Snow, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Eliza R Smith Snow, "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: nickname for someone with snow‐white hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from Middle English snou, snow ‘snow’ (Old English snaw).
American shortened and altered (translated into English) form of any of the Jewish artificial names composed with German Schnee, Schnei, Schneu ‘snow’ as the first element, e.g. Schneeberg .
Americanized form of French Canadian Chenard , reflecting the characteristic Canadian and American French rounding of the -ard ending.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Poem written by Eliza R. Snow for Joel Franklin Scovil
I just found this poem written as comfort for her cousin, Lury Snow Scovil, at the death of Lury's 14 year old son, Joel Franklin Scovil. It is in the story about Lucius Nelson Scovil and the Stonecu …
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