Brief Life History of Cornelia Jane
When Cornelia Jane Espy was born on 4 February 1820, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Espey, was 37 and her mother, Lucinda Overall, was 29. She married Seth Millington Blair on 7 December 1837, in Hales Point, Lauderdale, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 2 September 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Cornelia Blair in household of Seth M Blair, "United States Census, 1850"
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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
Scottish (western Scotland): from a shortened form of Gillespie .
French: topographic name for someone living near a prominent thorn bush or in an area characterized by such vegetation, from Old French espine (from Latin spina). Occasionally the name may derive from the same word used in a transferred sense of the crest or ridge of a hill.
In some cases also an altered form of German Espey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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