When Thomas Brigham Wilson was born on 2 May 1847, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Thomas Green Wilson, was 31 and his mother, Helen Copley, was 24. He married Lydia Ann Marie Patterson on 6 November 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Thistle, Utah, Utah, United States in 1880 and Tucker, Utah, Utah, United States in 1910. In 1929, at the age of 81, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 24 March 1929, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Payson City Cemetery, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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