Brief Life History of Emma
When Emma Wardle was born on 17 March 1848, in Romiley, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Ralph Wardle, was 36 and her mother, Harriet Charlesworth, was 40. She married Lemuel Lewis Williams on 27 February 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ada, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States in 1910. She died on 3 April 1929, in Inkom, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Inkom Cemetery, Bannock, Idaho, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Emma Moss in household of James Moss, "United States Census, 1910"
- Emma Moss, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Emma Cutler, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (8)
1850 · Belle Vue Gaol Opens
Belle Vue Gaol was a Victorian prison in Gorton, Manchester. The living conditions for the prisoners were horrible. It was intended to be a prison for both males and females and also became a military prison. In 1892, the prison was demolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Wardle in Lancashire and possibly Wardle in Cheshire, both named with Old English weard-hyll ‘watch hill’. Compare Warden 2 and Wardlaw .
habitational name from Weardale (Durham), which takes its name from the river Wear (related to the Indo-European root wis-, weis- ‘liquid, flow’ or wedōr- ‘water’) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Emma Louise Williams
Emma Was born 2, August 1870 to Lemuel Lewis Willams and Emma Wardle in Brigham City, Utah. Her parents were married 27, February 1866 in Salt Lake City by Wilford Woodruff. (They were later sealed …
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