Ransom Robert Potter

Brief Life History of Ransom Robert

When Ransom Robert Potter was born on 4 March 1807, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Lemuel Potter Jr., was 31 and his mother, Lois Roberts, was 31. He married Rhoda Emmaline Farrell on 2 September 1825, in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1870. He died on 15 November 1884, in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ransom Robert Potter
1807–1884
Rhoda Emmaline Farrell
1807–1892
Marriage: 2 September 1825
Potter
1826–1826
Rhoda Emeline Potter
1828–1909
Ransom Robert Potter
1830–1830
Isaac Smith Potter
1833–1867
Benjamin Franklin Potter
1836–1922
Thomas Potter
1843–

Sources (41)

  • Ransom R Potter, "United States Census, 1840"
  • Ransom Robert Potter: Family Data Collection - Births
  • Rhoda Farrell & Ransom Robert Potter: Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

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.

Name Meaning

English and Dutch; North German (Pötter): occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle Low German pot. In the Middle Ages the term covered workers in metal as well as earthenware and clay.

In some cases also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Lončar ‘potter’ (see Loncar ), and probably also of cognates from some other languages, e.g. Czech Hrnčíř (see Hrncir ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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