When Helen Copley was born on 25 October 1822, in Giles, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, her father, James Copley, was 47 and her mother, Cecelia Hearn, was 43. She married Thomas Green Wilson on 3 December 1840, in Edwards, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 25 August 1901, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Payson City Cemetery, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places called Copley, for example in County Durham, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, from the Old English personal name Coppa (apparently a byname for a tall man) or from copp ‘hilltop’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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