Brief Life History of Theresa Arathusa
When Theresa Arathusa Morley was born on 18 July 1826, in Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, United States, her father, Isaac Morley, was 40 and her mother, Lucy Gunn, was 40. She married Heber Chase Kimball on 3 February 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 1 October 1855, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Theressa Morley in household of Isaac Morley, "United States Census, 1850"
- Family Data Collection - Births
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
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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.
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: habitational name from any of various places called Morley (for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Norfolk, and Yorkshire), or Moreleigh in Devon, all of which are named from Old English mōr ‘moor’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Irish (Mayo): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murghaile ‘descendant of Murghal’, a personal name based on muir ‘sea’ + gal ‘valour’.
Irish (Mayo): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murthuile ‘descendant of Murthuile’, a personal name derived from muir ‘sea’ + tuile ‘tide’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Utah Pioneers - Theresa Morley Kimball
Theresa Morley Kimball was born July 18, 1826, at Kirtland, Ohio, the daughter and sixth child of Isaac and Lucy Gunn Morley. Early Church history notes that this family was closely associated with th …
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