Brief Life History of Ann
When Ann Crosby was born on 25 December 1812, in Knox, Indiana, United States, her father, John Jeter Crosby, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Glenn Coleman, was 27. She married Daniel Monroe Thomas on 17 March 1845, in Monroe, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1850 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 14 July 1878, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States.
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- Ann T Thomas in household of Daniel Thomas, "United States Census, 1870"
- David M. Thomas and Ann Crosby, 17 Mar 1845, "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911"
- Ann Crosby Thomas, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1816
Indiana is the 19th state.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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: habitational name from any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + bȳ ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.
Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).
History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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The Crosby's, Westward from Mississippi
The Crosby’s, Westward from Mississippi Elizabeth Coleman Crosby, born 12 March 1785, was the daughter of Joseph Coleman, who was a Revolutionary War soldier. She was the wife of John Jeter Crosby a …
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