Brief Life History of Eunice Sibley
When Eunice Sibley Bliss was born on 2 March 1807, in Royalston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Stephen Bliss, was 21 and her mother, Esther Waite, was 22. She married Samuel Moore on 7 April 1829, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 4 April 1890, in Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Scipio Cemetery, Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States.
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- Eunice Moore in household of Saml Moore, "United States Census, 1860"
- Eunice Bliss, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Eunice Sibley Bliss Moore, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle English blisse ‘joy’. Compare Blissett .
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from the village of Blay in Calvados, France, recorded in 1077 in the form Bleis. The village of Stoke Bliss in Worcestershire takes the second part of its name from a Norman family de Blez, recorded several times in the county from the 13th century.
German: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle High German blīde ‘happy, friendly’. It is also found in France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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SOPHRONIA MOORE MARTIN 1832-1915
(Her daughter, Isabelle Martin Smith, copied the items down as her mother gave them to her. Sophronia had a small book that she had made notations of events as they happened, and the language is hers. …
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